Re: warn when core functions are shadowed

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Feb-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| 2010/2/2 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
| > On  2-Feb-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| >
| > | > If we do want to add a command-line option, then we can make it work for
| > | > all warning flags:
| > | >
| > | >  --warning ID      set warning state for ID to "on"
| > | >  --no-warning ID   set warning state for ID to "off"
| > |
| > | Cool idea.
| >
| > Thinking about this a little more, maybe it should be
| >
| >  --warning-on ID
| >  --warning-off ID
| >  --warning-error ID
| >
| 
| Perhaps. But I think the third one is mostly useless, because nobody
| in his right mind wants errors in startup files. Afterwards it can be
| done in .octaverc.

Maybe you want to be able to run Octave in an environment where it is
inconvenient to have a custom .octaverc file?

jwe