I see I hit the wiki entry and missed the FAQ. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me!
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Philip Nienhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gerald: > > Gerald Britton wrote: >> >> HI -- I read the page on MatlabOctaveCompatibility today and saw that > > Exactly which one? (URL please?) > There are many ML-Octave compatibility FAQs scattered over the web. > >> it missed a couple of gotchas: >> >> - Octave supports in-line operators (+=, -=, etc.) MATLAB does not > > <snip> > > This one *is* mentioned in the FAQ under Matlab compatibility: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/FAQ.html#MATLAB-compatibility > > (but admittedly a bit hidden, somewhere in the lowermost paragraph of that > part of the FAQ. This FAQ is a bit incomplete BTW) > >> - Octave supports the double-quotes. MATLAB does not. > > <snip> > > Is also in the ML compatibility FAQ, a few lines further down. > >> >> - While we're at it, MATLAB has no native printf function (though >> fprintf does the same thing) > > <snip> > > Yep, that one is lacking (a real Matlab deficiency), but I'm sure I've read > it elsewhere (on the wiki?) in some Octave-ML compatibility web page(s) > before I hit it myself. > Ah... here it is: > > http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?MatlabOctaveCompatibility > > (but this one is also incomplete, e.g., it doesn't mention the += *= > operators) > > > There are a probably many more (mostly minor, sometimes annoying) > incompatibilities; some are in the Octave bug tracker, several have already > been fixed. > Every now and then I hit another one (at my work there's a large ML function > script codebase that I slowly feed to Octave - a wealth of testing stuff), > almost invariably related to the core octave scripts. > > Philip > -- Gerald Britton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
