Why does Octave ignore additional input arguments ?

[Julien Bect]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering whether there is a specific reason why Octave silently 
ignores additional input arguments in a function.

For instance:

>> F = @(x) x^2;  F(2, 3)
ans =  4

while in Matlab I get a "Too many input arguments" error.

@++
Julien