Re: fsolve test failure

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, January 30, 2009, at 03:50PM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 30-Jan-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
>| Technically, there is no incompatibility.
>
>I'd say, that technically there is, because optimset returns different
>things.  But in practice, I agree that you are right that this
>probably won't matter.  I seem to keep forgetting that even though
>Octave's optimset returns an empty structure, you can add fields to
>it.  So if someone has done this in some Matlab code, it will stil
>work with Octave.  It only matters if someone calls optimset and
>expects to see a get a non-empty structure and then wants to do
>something with those fields.  I guess this won't happen often.

Actually, I often make use of the structure returned by Matlab's optimset ... 
but only because I forget the name of the fields I need to set.

Not much of a compatibility issue, but I find it useful.

Ben