Re: Octave documentation help

[Rik]

On 11/26/2012 08:38 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:39:19 +0100
> From: ernst <address@hidden>
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> Subject: docs wanted?
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> Hello all,
> i am currently writing an octave parser based on reverse engineering.
> By doing so, I found some gaps in the octave manual
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/index.html.
> I think a manual shall be comprehensive and I would like to contribute a
> little.
12/3/12

Ernst,

The documentation on the website is not quite as current as the documention
in the Mercurial repository.  Nevertheless, check section 11.3
(Variable-length Argument Lists, 11.5 (Variable-length Return Lists), and
11.7 (Default Arguments) which I think address what you believed was missing.

The strings chapter (Chapter 5) doesn't appear to document that "" can be
used to place a literal '"' within a string.  Could you prepare a note
about that?

--Rik
>
> Let me know, whether you are interesting.
> Some items I found: missing in description of
>
>   * function declaration: parameters with default values, variable
>     parameter lists
>   * for comments: in "-comments, " need not be escaped: also "" is a
>     way: "He said ""Hello"" to all of us" works perfectly. Accordingly
>     for '-comments. 
>
> Greetings,
>
> Ernst