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Re: Why does Octave ignore additional input arguments ?


From: Olaf Till
Subject: Re: Why does Octave ignore additional input arguments ?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:10:02 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:49:10AM +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 09/02/2016 11:29, John W. Eaton a écrit :
> ...
> >It would help me if I see an example of where the current behavior is
> >useful.
> ...
> 2) In a situation where a package requires its users to provide a handle to
> a function, say F(x), and then decides to extend the interface with an
> additional argument, say F(x, y), the existing behavior makes it possible
> for the package developer to switch to the new interface unconditionally,
> without requiring the user to modify its own functions.
> ...
> For the second point, Olaf Till had an example involving the optim package.
> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-octave/2009-08/msg00074.html.

For an example I would rather point to the second post of this current
thread. Or are there more details needed?

Olaf

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