Matlab/octave difference: the flops command

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Apr-1998, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| There seems to be a difference between how octave and process the 
| "flops" command.
| 
| matlab has three invocations for flops
| 
| a = flops;
| a = flops();

How are these any different?  As far as I know, they should do the
same thing -- execute the function without any arguments.

| flops(n);          ( I am not sure what this one does)

Apparently the intent was to allow flops (0) to reset the count to
zero, but any value of N seems to work (even negative!).

| Whereas octave has only one 
| 
| flops(); (gives a warning if any other type is used.)
| 
| Is there a variable I set to get rid of this incompatibility? 

Flops is just an M-file.  Put one that does what you want somewhere in
your LOADPATH ahead of the default version.

But in the interest of compatibility in the extreme, I will modify the
default version to accept a single argument as well.

Thanks,

jwe