spaces and strings

[Brian Blais]

Hello,

In Matlab, the default behavior for commands without parentheses is to 
pass the argument as a string, like:

help ls

more on


now, this seems to work for some commands in octave, but certainly not 
for user-defined .m files.  Is there a reason for this?  Is this a 
parser limitation, or something else?  I find it a slight inconvenience, 
but I think it can be discouraging for some people coming from Matlab, 
and having their scripts break for this reason.


                                Brian Blais

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