[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60291] Function parameters not supported when calling from the shell

[Rik]

Update of bug #60291 (project octave):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                

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Follow-up Comment #3:

This sounds confusing, and I don't think I'd want to do it as a general part
of Octave.  But if you really want to for your own code, couldn't you just use
default input arguments?  When called from the command line there would be no
function input so the default would be used.  When called from Octave with an
argument the argument would be overriden.

For example, the function mysin.m which calculates the sine of a value.


#!/usr/local/bin/octave -qf
function retval = mysin (x = str2double (argv(){end}))
  retval = sin (x)
endfunction


This can be called from the command line with


mysin.m 5


or from Octave with


mysin (5)


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