Behavior of mldivide in Octave relative to Matlab

[David Bateman]

Marco Caliari wrote:
>> I'd suggest making it an option, and keep Octave's behavior the default.
> 
> I agree. Is it possible to define two built-in variables controlling the
> behaviour? This would make easy to change the behaviour of complex scripts.

I'm not sure a proliferation of variables to control the behavior of
basic operators like this is a great idea. The only advantage I see with
the matlab behavior are speed, memory usage and sparsity, at the cost of
an arguably worse solution mathematically speaking. Is there really code
out there that depends on matlab's particular solution to under
determined and singular problems? In any case I'd be more in favor of
either duplicating exactly matlab's behavior or just keeping what we have.

D.