Re: How to keep print compatiable with MATLAB

[Quentin Spencer]

Joe Koski wrote:

> Just a quick observation. If Octave and Matlab were compiled instead of
> interpreted, this approach wouldn't be possible at all. A compiler would
> choke when it saw the other language's instruction set in the if statement.
> Are there potential syntax checking problems that could derail this
> approach?
>  
Yes. I've run into this. Here are a few things that come to mind that 
are legal in octave but can't be used if you want your code to be MATLAB 
compatible:

- using the # character for comments
- the C-style operations: ++, +=, etc
- subscripts of expressions, for example: sqrt(a)(1:10)
- a whole lot of graphics-related commands (as already observed in the 
e-mail that started this thread).

Quentin


It seems like I've run into other examples, but this is all I can think 
of right now.



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