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From: | Julien Bect |
Subject: | Re: Why does Octave ignore additional input arguments ? |
Date: | Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:38:11 +0100 |
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Le 08/02/2016 21:57, Olaf Till a écrit :
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 06:59:27PM +0100, Julien Bect wrote:>Hello everyone, > >I was wondering whether there is a specific reason why Octave silently >ignores additional input arguments in a function. > >For instance: >> >>F = @(x) x^2; F(2, 3)>ans = 4 > >while in Matlab I get a "Too many input arguments" error. > >@++ >JulienThis was discussed in the thread starting with: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2009-08/msg00037.html Summarizing, this behaviour of Octave might have been introduced without a strong reason, but it has regarded as to be useful.
Thanks for the link, Olaf. I assumed this would have been discussed but I had failed to find the relevant thread.
I have to confess that I'm not really convinced by the reasons given to keep the current behaviour...
But this has already been discussed, so let's leave things as they are. @++ Julien
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