Re: MATLAB / Octave compatability, spacing, parsing

[Paul Roberts]

Hi Steve,

I have a MATLAB 7.0.0.19901 on one of my machines, and I can confirm that:

A = B ';

does not parse. In contrast, MATLAB seems to be fine with:

this = that (with, some, parms)

or

this = that(with, some, parms)


Paul



On 10/24/05, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 24-Oct-2005, Steve C. Thompson wrote:
>
> | but I think that MATLAB generally wants
> |
> |   this = that(with, some, parms);
>
> Why?  What happens if you have a space before the open paren?
>
> | works in Octave but MATLAB requires
> |
> |   a = b';
>
> Again, why?  What happens if you have a space between be and the
> single quote character?
>
> | Do any of you know of a resource that could be helpful?
>
> You could ask on comp.soft-sys.matlab why Matlab stupidly interprets
> whitespace as significant in these cases.  1/2 :-)
>
> jwe
>
>
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