Re: save options handling

[Bill Denney]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David Bateman wrote:

> Bill Denney wrote:
>
> > As someone who is more of a user, I'd think that if I give any options 
> > they would override the defaults, and it would be hard for me to debug 
> > if there were other default options that took effect when I gave 
> > options.  If you keep the default options when specific options are 
> > used, it would be helpful to at least give a warning that the other 
> > options were used.
> >
> > Bill
> Consider carefully the case I gave of
>
> default_save_options = "-binary";
> save -zip test.mat x
>
> What is the default file format in this case? The reason to create the 
> defaults_save_options argument was so that we didn't need two global 
> variables for the file format and its options. So if it is implemented 
> as you suggest we are left with a hard coded file format...
>
> Sorry I think I prefer the complementary options due to this point 
> alone...

OK, well I think that I (at least personally) would prefer at least a once 
per session warning that it is using a complementary option then.

I admit though that I don't really use the save options all that 
intensively.  (I think of ascii as just ascii, not zipped ascii, and I 
think of essentially all other saved files as just binary without thinking 
of how the binary is constructed.)

Bill

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