Re: debug breakpoint commands want line numbers as strings!!

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 22-May-2007, David Bateman wrote:
> 
> | Is there any reason why the debug commands require that the line numbers
> | for breakpoints are set as strings?
> 
> I assume it was not intentional, but that it was written the way it
> was so that these functions would work like commands (which get all
> their arguments as character strings).
>


The commandline form would still work.. However we are a long way from
Matlab compatible here. A typical breakpoint might be

dbstop in foo at 10 if a == 10

and debug_on_error etc in Matlab are in fact

debug if error

It seems like a lot of work to get full compatibility here. so maybe later.

D.