syntax for eye(X) and Matlab compatibility

[E. Joshua Rigler]

Is there any reason, other than the obvious Matlab compatibility, that
newer versions of Octave (i.e. starting sometime after 2.1.50) treat the
following two command lines differently (older versions gave identical
output):


octave:1> disp ([eye(3) .* 2]);
  2  0  0
  0  2  0
  0  0  2
octave:2> disp ([eye (3) .* 2]);
  1  6
octave:3> 


I always thought I was coding in a style appreciated by many Octave
users when I placed a space between my function and its parameter list. 
I guess I'll have to rethink this in order to avoid the problem
illustrated by the example above.

-EJR



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