Re: Optional argument to the catch statement

[Stefan Mahr]

Peter L. Soendergaard <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 03:48 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> On 5 April 2013 09:24, Peter L. Soendergaard <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Are there any plans for supporting the following syntax (works in
>>> Matlab)
>> Nobody has offered to implement it yet. Are you offering?
> No, I don't have the time.
> 
> My reason for reporting it is that this is the most common piece of code
> (that I have received from other people) that works in Matlab, but not
> in Octave.  I manage the AMToolbox project,
> http://amtoolbox.sourceforge.net/, so I receive a lot of Matlab code
> from students of highly varying levels of clarity. It almost always
> works perfectly in Octave, except for this issue.
> 
> Secondly, it is actually a nice piece of code, this is the natural way
> of expression also used in other programming languages. This would be a
> much more satisfying feature to include than characters following "..."
> or terminal colours :-)
> 
> Thirdly, it is hard for me to work around. I will instruct people to use
> the lasterr function instead, but it leaves a bad impression of Octave
> that people must switch to an inferior Matlab function in order to
> support Octave.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter.

Try to build the dev version of octave with "trycatch3.diff" from
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33217

Stefan