Re: pwd & cd

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Nov-2011, John W. Eaton wrote:

| On 22-Nov-2011, J Luis wrote:
| 
| | On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:
| | > Am 22.11.2011 22:18, schrieb Joaquim Luis:
| | >> octave.exe:1> d = cd
| | >> error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined
| | > That also does not work on linux with 3.4.3, I tested this quickly, same
| | > error
| | >
| | > d=pwd
| | > works and should be platform independent.
| | 
| | I know it does, but so it should with 'cd' like it does in Matlab
| | 
| | >> d = cd
| | 
| | d =
| | 
| | C:\SVN\mironeWC
| 
| OK, I thought this had been fixed, but apparently not.  I know we've
| discussed it before and I thought we concluded that it was OK to have
| cd work differently if nargin == 0 && nargout == 1.

I checked in the following change:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/8d19194c4b1f

Can anyone think of a good reason to not have cd behave this way?

jwe