Re: misbehavior in Octave 2.9.4 for OS/2

[Dushan Mitrovich]

Joan Picanyol i Puig <address@hidden> wrote:
>* Dushan Mitrovich <address@hidden> [20060616 23:04]:
>> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >On 16-Jun-2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>> > You have some lines that don't end in semicolons.
>>
>> Yes, that's because I found that if I end all assignment lines with semi-
>> colons, when I call the function no results are printed.  When I remove
>> the semicolons from the result lines, Octave does print the result.  Is
>> this not the expected behavior?
>
> Yes, it is expected. Try 'help silent_functions' at the octave prompt.
> However, when developing multiple functions things can get messy. I
> follow the strategy of terminating "interesting" lines in a function
> with a colon, and I put the following at the beginning and end of every
> function:
> 
>     if(exist('OCTAVE_VERSION'))
>         old_silent_functions = silent_functions;
>         silent_functions = 1;
>     end
>     [...]
>     if(exist('OCTAVE_VERSION'))
>         silent_functions = old_silent_functions;
>     end
> 
> This way, I can tune verbosity in a function by function basis.

Thanks, Joan, I'll try this out.

- Dushan