Questions about eval

[John W. Eaton]

I noticed that Matlab's documentation for eval no longer mentions the form

  eval (try_code, catch_code)

to evaluate the "catch_code" if "try_code" throws an error.  Should we 
also deprecate this feature in Octave?

Does Matlab restrict the code to be evaluated to be a single expression, 
or are statements and multiple expressions allowed?  For example, what 
happens for the following in current Matlab versions?

  eval ('x = 2+2')

  eval ('1+1, pi')

  eval ('for i = 1:3, i, end')

In Octave, all of these work.  If Matlab restricts the argument of eval 
to be a single expression (not a statement) then should we also impose 
that limitation?  It might simplify the implementation somewhat if we 
did not have to handle arbitrary code.

Thanks,

jwe