Re: Why does Octave ignore additional input arguments ?

[Julien Bect]

Le 09/02/2016 00:46, Nicholas Jankowski a écrit :
> > I have to confess that I'm not really convinced by the reasons given 
> to keep the current behaviour...
> >
> > But this has already been discussed, so let's leave things as they are.
> >
> > @++
> > Julien
>
> I think I remember the thought process being something like: what 
> works in MATLAB produce the same output in Octave, but some things 
> that work in Octave might not work in MATLAB, and that's ok when it is 
> useful. And although it might be considered sloppy, some people have 
> made use of that feature.

Accepting additional arguments silently seems to me like a dangerous 
feature for non-expert users, who will not be informed of potential 
syntax errors.

Unless of course every developper adds a check for nargin > nargin_max.  
This is what I do in the stk package, since I have to, but I find it 
annoying (and I would be perfectly happy with a default non-customized 
error message).

No other langage that I know of (R, Scilab, Python, Scilab, Julia) does 
that.

But as I said, this has already been discussed, and apparently no one is 
complaining, so I will keep adding checks for nargin > nargin_max 
everywhere.

@++
Julien