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bug #46929: docu for automatic broadcasting out of date

Submitter:  Max Görner <maxg>
Submitted:  Mon 18 Jan 2016 01:26:07 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Wont Fix Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.0.0 Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Mon 26 Feb 2024 07:57:41 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Text in comment #0 hasn't been in the octave docs since v4.0.3.  closing report as won't fix.  if someone wants to propose that "Octave:broadcast" be reinstituted as a valid built-in warning/error message, a new report request can be opened.

Nicholas Jankowski <nrjank>
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Fri 28 Oct 2016 08:24:13 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Just to note that I think it is very important for debugging purposes to be able to turn the warning on.

In fact, it can be turned on, but it produces no effect...

Francesco Potortì <pot>
Wed 20 Jan 2016 08:04:42 AM UTC, comment #2: 


>Would you like to be able still to run warning ("error", "Octave:broadcast")?


Yes, that's how I found that 'bug'.

I really like that feature, but sometimes it hides bugs. So it would be helpful to be able to turn off automatic broadcasting to find mismatched dimensionalities.

Max Görner <maxg>
Tue 19 Jan 2016 10:57:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the bug report, Max.  I recently tried arguing that the old behaviour should be reinstated, which I think is the best way for the documentation to match the behaviour :)

Would you like to be able still to run  warning ("error", "Octave:broadcast")?

Lachlan Andrew <lachlan>
Mon 18 Jan 2016 01:26:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

the documentation section 19.2.1 says:

To disable this warning, refer to its ID (see warning_ids):

warning ("off", "Octave:broadcast");

If you want to recover the old behavior and produce an error, turn this warning into an error:

warning ("error", "Octave:broadcast");


However, section 12.2.1 does not list the ID "Octave:broadcast", and furthermore, the examples don't work.

sincerely

Max Görner <maxg>

 

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