Re: Removing broadcasting from Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Dec-2011, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

| On 12/14/2011 03:55 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
| 
| > The idea of having an easily deactivated warning when about bsx is
| > perform is not a bad idea...of course standard code gets  verbose
| > output :(
| 
| MATLAB_ME_HARDER?
| 
| (in a way of explanation, Richard Stallman, who didn't like POSIX much, 
| proposed an environment variable POSIX_ME_HARDER that made several GNU 
| utilities behave in a POSIX-mandated way that Stallman didn't like 
| (reporting disk space in 521B units instead of 1kB, etc). People found 
| it a little too 'geek/offensive' so it's called POSIXLY_CORRECT now :)

Someone also recently suggested the idea of --matlabotomize as an
alias for --traditional in addition to the current --braindead.

The problem with a global option for disabling this feature is that it
could easily break internal Octave code that was written expecting
that the feature was enabled.  And having to check whether the feature
is enabled before using it is worse than just not having the feature
at all.

jwe