Re: Octave 2.9.12 available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Jun-2007, Paul Kienzle wrote:

| 
| On Jun 15, 2007, at 12:22 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| > On 14-Jun-2007, Paul Kienzle wrote:
| >
| > | So try:
| > |
| > |    %!xtest assert()
| > |    %!xtest fail()
| > |
| > | and it should work.
| >
| > OK, sorry for not realizing this earlier.  I did this for the two 
| > tests in set/ismember.m that are known to fail and also changed the 
| > test/fntests.m script to report the total number of expected failures 
| > encountered in the summary.
| 
| I've changed the example in the docs from
|     %!xtest error("failure")
| to
|     %!xtest assert (1==0)
|     %!xtest fail ('success=1', 'error')
| 
| Is this too subtle?

I applied the patch.  It would have helped if I had carefully read the
docs.  :-/  I was not paying attention, so I was thinking that it was
"xtest (TEST)", not that xtest was acting like a modifier.

jwe