Re: error('') behaviour

[Marco Caliari]

> > error(' '),disp('done')
???

Yes, the argument has to be completely empty.

Marco

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 31-Mar-2009, Marco Caliari wrote:
>
> | Dear maintainers,
> |
> | just to report the following incompatibility:
> |
> | ml
> | >> error(''),disp('done')
> | done
> |
> | octave
> | >> error(''),disp('done')
> | error:
> |
> | That is, if the function error is called with an empty string, than no
> | error should occour. I have seen this piece of code
> |
> | error(nargchk(0,1,nargin));
> |
> | exploiting the incompatibility.
>
> Does the argument have to be completely empty?  What happens for
>
>  error (' ')
>
> ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe