Re: Make Octave behave more like Matlab

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Feb-2007, Matthias Brennwald wrote:

| Well, yes, of course that's what I'm doing usually. But I sometimes  
| forget not to use double quotes (I'm human), and Octave does not tell  
| me so. Now, if someone else uses my code with Matlab, he/she will get  
| an error. So: is there a way to make Octave tell me not to use double  
| quotes?
| 
| One idea I have about this is to add a feature in Octave that checks  
| for double quotes, and produce a warning or an error. This feature  
| would be turned off by default, but can be turned on by setting some  
| flag. Or is there another (better) idea?

Did you not see this message:

  https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-February/003142.html

?

Also, in 2.1.x, this warning is controlled by a built-in variable
called warn_matlab_incompatible.

jwe