Re: [changeset] - have closereq() respect the property "tag"

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:28 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  9-Oct-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | Presently closereq() checks the handle value to be sure it is not
> | equal to 0.
> |
> | Instead it should check that the handle is assigned to a figure.
>
> Should we also avoid the error for (possibly) calling delete (0)?  I'm
> not even sure that can happend, and at least calling delete (0)
> doesn't actually delete the root figure, so I suppose this change is
> OK.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe


In Matlab

        >> get(0,'type')
        ans = root

In Octave

        octave:49> get(0,'type')
        ans = root_figure

So I think we should be ok.

Ben