Re: new octave

[Maarten D. de Jong]

> Below is an example of a m file with three options. Tell me which one you
> like more, or tell me about any better idea.

How about no extra symbols at all and use automatic concatenation as is the 
case with many C-compilers? Quite frankly, I think it is the job of the 
machine to figure out what to do when a line without a fully parsed 
statement is encountered---and putting in ... or \ makes no difference 
whatsoever: what is the difference between ...\n, \\n or \n?

Oh, and if you are working on a new syntaxis, please make sure that it 
parses things like 'fgets(1)[1]' or perhaps '(fgets(1))[1]' too. I consider 
it a waste of interpreter time and effort to write 'a = fgets(1); a = 
a[1];'. But that's probably me :-).


With kind regards,
Maarten  



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