Writing 'help' functions as m-files

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> Yes.  If the doc string for a .oct file is empty, Octave will look for
> a .m file of the same name.  The way it works now is possibly
> confusing (but apparently it is compatible behavior).  If foo.oct with
> no doc string appears somewhere in the path before foo.m with a doc
> string, Octave will display the documentation from the .m file even
> though it will find and execute foo.oct.  It might be better for it to
> simply find the function it would execute, then if no doc string is
> defined for it, only look for the corresponding .m file rather than
> searching the path again.  It's hard to imagine that being
> incompatible in this way would be a bad thing...
>
>   

As Matlab doesn't support the Octave API and mex-files can't have
help-string, in what way would this be incompatible?

D.



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