Re: Why does Octave ignore additional input arguments ?

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/09/2016 04:11 AM, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> On 08/02/16 23:56, Julien Bect wrote:
> > but I find it annoying (and I would be perfectly happy with a default
> > non-customized error message).
>
> +1 for annoying.
>
> I hadn't paid attention to this problem until recently; *not* looking
> forward to doing this everywhere:
>
> if (nargin > ...)
>    print_usage ();
> endif

I think it would be fairly easy to make exactly that happen automatically.

The question is whether there is some legitimate reason to keep the 
existing behavior.  I'm not convinced that there is, but maybe I'm 
wrong?  It would help me if I see an example of where the current 
behavior is useful.

jwe