Re: Default arguments

[Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 15-Dec-2006, Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:
>
> | 
> | > It would also be better to be able to call foo like
> | > 
> | >     foo(arg = 42)
> | 
> | That could break existing code, though, because that's valid syntax now (set the local variable arg).
>
> Yes, it would definitely cause trouble for Octave, though we could
> consider a new operator, like
>
>   foo (arg := 42)
>
> But in Matlab assignment is not an expression, so the syntax you
> quoted does not presently work. 

But it does work in Octave! (That's what's important. :-)

I think a new operator would be a good way to go.

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Tom Holroyd, Ph.D.
We experience the world not as it is, but as we expect it to be.