Re: possible bug

[Gorazd Brumen]

Hi John,

I know that the question is maybe partially irrelevant, but
hopefully clarifying. In
what respect does this special whitespace feature removal
"causes a lot more problems than it solves" - apart from
compatibility? this feature caused me a lot more
time to debug - I namely dont use matlab at all.

if i want a special Matlab feature I simply write
gg {1} = { permut permut(1) }
or with the whitespace between second permut and 1.


Regards,
G.


John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 23-Feb-2006, Gorazd Brumen wrote:
> 
> | Why is it done this way? Is there any
> | special reason of cell properties that it should
> | function this way or is "compatibility with matlab(TM)"
> | the only reason? I find this behavior really really weird.
> | no logic whatsoever.
> 
> Yes, well I would personally prefer to not have magic whitespace in
> this context (or inside []).  But if Octave behaves differently from
> Matlab in this regard, it causes a lot more problems than it solves.
> 
> If you want to know why Matlab has this "feature" then I guess you
> should ask the MathWorks about the history behind it.
> 
> jwe
> 

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