Re: [OctDev] A few (Octave) ideas

[David Bateman]

Thomas Treichl wrote:
> On 04/06/10 20:44, Jake wrote:
>   
> > I've seen some of the Octave m files...what is this Octave-style coding?
> > The two space indentation?
> >     
>
> If I remember correctly then this is explained in the Octave manual, 
> examples are:
>
> I used (# is not known by Matlab)
>    %# for comments
> the Octave-style is
>    ## for comments
>
> Matlab uses "end" for all loops, Octave uses
>    if .. endif, while .. endwhile, etc.
>
>   

There are detailed coding standards in the manual. Unfortunately the 
version of the manual on the website is really out-of-date (how can this 
be fixed?) so unless you have a recent compiled version of the manual 
you can read the texinfo source at

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/tip/doc/interpreter/contrib.txi

D.