Re: named arguments

[Olaf Till]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:21:19PM +0100, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> Hi,
> Looks like named arguments are still positional
> 
> function namedarg (a,b='named b',c='named c')
>  disp(b);
>  disp(c);
> end
> 
> > namedarg(1)
> named b
> named c
> > namedarg(1,b=0)
> 0
> named c
> > namedarg(1,c=0)

What you pass as second argument is just the value of the assignment
"c=0", which is "0", no matter whether you call the variable assigned
to "c" or something else.

I'm not aware of Octave supporting named arguments. There was once a
suggestion to support named arguments, but it has been disapproved
because of the risk of future incompatibilities with Matlab.

Olaf

> 0
> named c
> 
> I expected the second call to return
> 
> named b
> 0
> 
> or I am getting something wrong?
> 
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