help-octave
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: "size(foo)" vs "size foo" (octave-3.4.3)


From: lukshuntim
Subject: Re: "size(foo)" vs "size foo" (octave-3.4.3)
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:36 +0800
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120130 Thunderbird/10.0

On 02/04/2012 10:00 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 4 February 2012 03:06,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Is there any (help) command/function to show whether a name is a
>> function or a command?
> 
> As Jordi as said, all functions are also commands.
> 
> Still, about your question, the usage line of functions and commands
> help text will have the word "function" or "command" respectively
> (although the first line says functino for both)
> 
>> help chdir
> `chdir' is a built-in function
> 
>  -- Command:  cd dir
>  -- Command:  chdir dir
> 
>> help plot
> `plot' is a function from the file
> /usr/local/share/octave/3.4.3-rc0/m/plot/plot.m
> 
>  -- Function File:  plot (Y)
>  -- Function File:  plot (X, Y)
>  -- Function File:  plot (X, Y, PROPERTY, VALUE, ...)
>  -- Function File:  plot (X, Y, FMT)
>  -- Function File:  plot (H, ...)
>  -- Function File: H = plot (...)
> 
> Carnë
> 

I think I now understand the help message. :-)

Thanks very much,
ST
-- 



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]