Re: Opinions on Matlab compatibility, Octave development

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 4 June 2010 10:08, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  4-Jun-2010, Judd Storrs wrote:
>
> | Because the := would be a new token (and I can't think if any cases
> | this sequence of characters could ever show up in valid octave or
> | Matlab code)
>
> At least not until TMW introduces some new feature using this syntax
> that is different and incompatible with the one we've chosen, of
> course...

Which is the same thing you were lamenting almost ten years ago about
perpetually playing catchup with Matlab.