Re: matlab and octave

[Geraint Paul Bevan]

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Laurent Jacques wrote:

| ---- ismatlab.m
| function out = ismatlab()
| %% Return 1 if you are in matlab and 0 if you are in octave


There are a number of ways of checking whether Matlab or Octave is being
used, but they all depend on checking for some difference between the
programs other than the one which the user is trying to protect against.

Considering that there is now an effort to increase compatability with
Matlab, this could be problematic if the differences which are exploited
cease to exist in the future.

Ideally, there would be agreement with Mathworks for a standard function
~ to return the name of the interpreter being used so that users could
write, for instance,

if (interpreter == matlab)
        something
elseif (interpreter == octave)
        something else
else
        error
end

Has anyone ever tried to get such agreement with Mathworks or does
anyone have any idea if they might be amenable to such a thing?

- --
Geraint Bevan
http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/~gbevan

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