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Re: Matlab 2016b introduces automatic broadcasting and functions in scri


From: Sebastian
Subject: Re: Matlab 2016b introduces automatic broadcasting and functions in scripts
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:58:12 +0300

On 2016-08-21, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On 21 August 2016 at 16:35, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Carnë Draug wrote
>>> Should we stop giving language-extension warnings for automatic
>>> broadcasting?
>> 
>> On the contrary: I would be very very happy, if I could make Octave through
>> an error if a "user" function uses broadcasting but this is not possible,
>> right? - It's a debugging nightmare if you are teaching Matlab/Octave
>> classes.
> However, because setting of an error state is not lexically scoped
> this would cause Octave functions that make use of broadcasting throw
> an error too.  There is a patch on the tracker that adds a new option
> for lexically scoped error states but is not going to be included in 4.2.

Do you have a link or the id at hand?

Sebastian


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