Re: Ideas for auto BSX

[Judd Storrs]

2011/10/1 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> As I've said before, I don't see "Matlab compatibility" to be anything
> more than source compatibility. If it runs in Matlab, it should run in
> Octave and produce almost the same result (perhaps slight variation in
> graphics is acceptable, for example). I don't see making everything in
> Octave working and looking exactly like Matlab to be the goal. We
> already have lots of other nice Octave-only language features (e.g.
> being able to define functions interactively without needing a
> separate file for each or being able to index temporaries), and that's
> not lack of Matlab compatibility.

One thing that just occurred to me is: does it become much more
difficult to automatically translate octave code into code that will
run in matlab? My hunch is it becomes nearly impossible to do this
well. I guess you could translate all operator expressions into
bsxfun() calls for matlab. I think a specialized operator would convey
semantics that could help a translator.


--judd