Re: Octave specific legend call forms

[Ben Abbott]

> On Oct 10, 2019, at 15:21, Pantxo Diribarne <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently trying to rewrite the legend function and would like your 
> opinion on an Octave specific way of manipulating legend objects. In demos we 
> often use the following construct:
> 
> plot (1:10);
> h = legend ("Hello");
> legend (h, "fontsize", 20);
> 
> The last line is strange. We use "legend" to do what "set" should be doing. 
> AFAICS this construct is not documented (only axes handles are documented to 
> be possible as first argument). IMHO it doesn't feel natural to replace "set" 
> by "legend" and doesn't bring any simplification so I'd like to remove this 
> Octave specific call form.
> 
> Any opinion?
> 
> Pantxo  

 Matlab behaves that way.?

Ben