Detecting Matlab or Octave

[Julius Smith]

Is there some way to detect, inside a function, whether that function is 
running under Matlab or Octave?

A really lame method would be to test for facilities that exist in Matlab 
but not Octave using the exist() function, but of course that fails when 
the facilities finally appear in Octave.

Another lame but possibly more practical method is to analyze the version 
variable.  (This could be made to work reliably if Octave moved to negative 
version numbers, an alpha prefix, etc.)

Does anyone have a good idea about this, or is there a known good method?

Thanks,
Julius <address@hidden> 



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