[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54736] Behavior of load() when a specified name keyword is missing

[Rik]

Update of bug #54736 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I understand that Octave is different in this regard, but I want to keep the
stricter checking.

Philosophically, I prefer that Octave signal to the programmer at the earliest
possible opportunity when something has gone wrong.  This makes debugging
easier because the problem and the resulting error are located close
together.

Matlab's approach is often to return a silent null ([]) when things go wrong. 
But this allows the script to continue and it may be quite a while before the
error is detected, or maybe never.  Many scripts are run in batch mode and so
warning messages printed are never seen, whereas a hard error will be
detected.

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