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Re: Matlab 2016b introduces automatic broadcasting and functions in scri


From: Carnë Draug
Subject: Re: Matlab 2016b introduces automatic broadcasting and functions in scripts
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:59:34 +0100

On 22 August 2016 at 07:58, Sebastian <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2016-08-21, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 August 2016 at 16:35, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Carnë Draug wrote
>>>> Should we stop giving language-extension warnings for automatic
>>>> broadcasting?
>>>
>>> On the contrary: I would be very very happy, if I could make Octave through
>>> an error if a "user" function uses broadcasting but this is not possible,
>>> right? - It's a debugging nightmare if you are teaching Matlab/Octave
>>> classes.
>> However, because setting of an error state is not lexically scoped
>> this would cause Octave functions that make use of broadcasting throw
>> an error too.  There is a patch on the tracker that adds a new option
>> for lexically scoped error states but is not going to be included in 4.2.
>
> Do you have a link or the id at hand?
>

I went to look for it and I was wrong.  It was said that it would be
reverted for 4.2 but it was not actually done.  See

    https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45761



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