Re: What should be the extension of octave files?

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> I provided the above case just as an example. But everyone is picking 
> out on the example rather than on my actual question. May be it is in 
> the way I phrased the question.
>
> Is there any separate extension that should be given to octave files 
> which are incompatible with matlab files?
>
> It makes sense to have a .m extension if the octave file is compatible 
> with matlab. But if it is incompatible what is the point of having a .m 
> extension? We might as well have a octave specific extension say .oct 
> indicating outright that the file is incompatible with matlab.

.oct is actually for compiled Octave functions.  There is no different, 
octave specific, extension.  I think that it would just add to confusion 
since they are mostly compatible, and the incompatibilities run both ways.

Bill

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