Re: system command status/output order changed in 2.9.x

[Quentin Spencer]

Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:46:28 -0600
> > From: Joshua Rigler <address@hidden>
> > Subject: system command status/output order changed in 2.9.x
> > To: address@hidden
> > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> >
> > After a brief search, I could find no mention of this change in the  
> > last
> > year's email list archives (as saved on my computer), nor by pointing
> > Google at the standard Octave websites (including the wiki).
> >
> > The output order of Octave's 'system' command seems to have changed
> > since 2.1.x.  It used to be:
> >
> >     
> > > [output, status] = system(sys_cmd);
> > >       
> > It is now (in 2.9.8):
> >
> >     
> > > [status, output] = system(sys_cmd);
> > >       
> > It seems to me that this warrants a note in the new 'NEWS' file
> > (distributed in the source code tar-ball or via CVS), along with  
> > all the
> > other changes due in Octave 3.x, since it could very easily change the
> > behavior of an existing program without actually breaking it.
> >     
>
> Why not just go back to the old order? That would leave everything  
> running as it was intended to. Why did this change anyway?
>   

Matlab compatibility.


Quentin