Re: What's the correct order of things in a file? (beginner's question)

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Jun-2005, Bill Denney wrote:

| On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, David Collett wrote:
| 
| > Can you use either? Are there different "flavors" of Octave that use 
| > different commands?
| 
| I believe that endfor, endfunction, are older variants.  They're still 
| valid, but you can just use end for all types of end (that I know of) now.

If you are writing code for Octave, I think it is better to use the
specific end keywords because then the intent is clearer and error
messages about mismatched end tokens can be easier to understand.

jwe



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