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Octave and cargo cult programmingHello


From: Sergei Steshenko
Subject: Octave and cargo cult programmingHello
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:57:31 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,

after learning how and why broadcasting was introduced into Octave I stumbled 
upon the following article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
.

The proper way of introducing broadcasting should have been through compiler 
pragma or explicit user controllable (and off by default) operator overloading.

Now into each of my scripts I insert

warning ("error", "Octave:broadcast");

- I don't like startup files - because of their global nature.


Regards,
  Sergei.


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