Optional argument to the catch statement

[Peter L. Soendergaard]

Are there any plans for supporting the following syntax (works in Matlab)

try
    load 'Thisfiledoesnotexist';
catch err
    disp(err.message)
end;

The issue here is the argument "err" to the catch statement, which does 
not seems to be supported in Octave currently (neither stable nor 
development). You can work around the problem using this construction:

try
    load 'Thisfiledoesnotexist';
catch
    disp(lasterr.message)
end;

but Matlab are discouraging the use of the lasterror function because it 
depends on a global variable, so people choose the other syntax instead.

Cheers,
Peter.