Re: matching command

[Shai Ayal]

Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:31:38PM +0800, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno wrote:
> > But you should always look at the help message of each function before
> > using it. For example: `help plot'
> >
> > It's because some functions behave differently from their Matlab
> counterparts.
>
> They're not supposed to -- and if they do, it's a bug.  It might be
> true, though, that not all functionality is always identically
> supported (and of course, using 'help' is always a good idea).

I'm not sure I agree -- e.g. the plot command's way of specifying line 
labels (keys) is a wonderful feature which I think does not exist in matlab

plot(x,y,"b-;just a line;");

I'm sure there are many other examples. IMHO Octave should strive to be 
better than matlab, not just a clone

Shai



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