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Octave-FAQ clarification
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Alex Zvoleff |
Subject: |
Octave-FAQ clarification |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:47:54 -0500 |
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The attached patch clarifies (to me at least) the discussion of Octave
vs. Matlab's nested function scoping rules in the Octave-FAQ. Also, it
adds a mention of the Nabble searchable mailing list archive to the
documentation section.
Alex Zvoleff
Index: doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi
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RCS file: /cvs/octave/doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -r1.29 Octave-FAQ.texi
--- doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi 7 Nov 2007 15:49:37 -0000 1.29
+++ doc/faq/Octave-FAQ.texi 15 Nov 2007 15:46:26 -0000
@@ -450,7 +450,8 @@
mailing list, or other administrative trivia to the list itself.
An archive of old postings to the help-octave mailing list is maintained
-on @url{http://www.octave.org/archive.html}.
+on @url{http://www.octave.org/archive.html}. A unofficial searchable
+archive is available at @url{http://www.nabble.com/Octave-f1895.html}.
You will also find some user advice and code spread over the web. Good
starting points are the Octave Wiki @url{http://wiki.octave.org} and
@@ -725,10 +726,10 @@
are treated as sub-functions with the same scoping rules as
sub-functions.
-The authors of Octave consider the nested function scoping rules of
-Matlab to be more problems than they are worth as they introduce
-diffiult to find bugs as inadvertantly modifying a variable in a
-nested function that is also used in the parent is particularly easy.
+The authors of Octave find @sc{Matlab's} nested function scoping rules to
+be problematic, as they can introduce difficult to find bugs since it is
+easy (in @sc{Matlab}) to inadvertently modify a variable in a nested
+function that is also used in the parent.
@item Differences in core syntax
There a few core @sc{Matlab} syntaxes that are not accepted by Octave,
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