rand('state',0)

[Steve C. Thompson]

Group,

I'm collaborating with MATLAB users and they have
rand('state',0) in their code.  According to 
<http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/rand.html>
this is used in MATLAB to ``set rand to its default initial
state''.  This command produces an error in Octave, however:

  octave:1> rand('state',0)
  error: rand: unrecognized string argument

Can someone tell me if by simply commenting out this line of
code will have any side effects?

Thanks in advance.

Steve



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