[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41032] Command function parsing: does handle certain patterns involving commas as parentheses

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #41032 (project octave):

FWIW, there doesn't seem to be any mention of the strange rules about brackets
here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/command-vs-function-syntax.html

It seems to me that you have been relying on undocumented Matlab features.  My
experience says that crazy freaking rabbit holes are the norm when dealing
with undocumented Matlab, possibly because the behavior is not intentional but
just an accident of the implementation.  Or it's possible that the behavior is
intentional, but the person who documented it didn't understand it any better
than we do.  Who knows?

Can you find documentation that explains the behavior?  Can you get TMW to
explain and/or document it more fully?  Without that, who's to say that it
won't just change arbitrarily in some future Matlab release?


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