Re: Removing broadcasting from Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 15 December 2011 01:21, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15-Dec-2011, fork wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton <jwe <at> octave.org> writes:
> |
> | > Jordi, do you agree that the patch below is enough to disable the
> | > feature, or is there something else that needs to be done?
> |
> | Is there some way to have it turned on or off via a function instead of at
> | compilation time (like debug_on_error(1))?  I think it is a great feature, 
> but I
> | agree that it is still sort of experimental.
>
> The following patch is close, but maybe not exactly the right thing.
> The problem is that if someone does
>
>  warning error Octave:auto-bsxfun
>
> then the somewhat strange error message
>
>  error: operator .*: automatic bsxfun applied
>
> will appear, followed by actually performing the operation.

Can we change the wording? I really think "broadcasting" is a clearer
term instead of having to expand the BSX acronym... or perhaps the
reference to bsxfun will make people look up that function?

- Jordi G. H.