Re: Incompatabilities between Matlab and Octave

[David Bateman]

The document you point to is almost 10 years old... Things have moved on a
bit. But still the classification to difference between octave and matlab
into thre classes is pretty much true.. Not much else in the document is
though..

All of the variables like "do_fortran_indexing" that are talked about no
longer exist and the default behaviour is matlab compatiable. Also substring
and C-style IO should be ok... The bit about plotting however is fairly true,
though most of the matlab style commands work with a few annoying differnces.

If you are sending to this list (ie. address@hidden), it surprises me you
couldn't find the address@hidden list and its archive at

http://www.octave.org/archive.html

Its almost impossible to find an accurate list of differences as differences
are often implemented in octave soon after someone finds a need for the
feature... But, the list at 

http://octave.sourceforge.net/compatibility.html

is probably the most upto date, since Paul tries to keep it upto date, but 
even here I can identify at least one thing that is no longer true (ie. limit
in datenum has been removed recently).

Cheers
David


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