SPECIAL  SPECIAL Special Calling Syntax


Usage
 
 To reduce the effort to call certain functions, FreeMat supports
 a special calling syntax for functions that take string arguments.
 In particular, the three following syntaxes are equivalent, with
 one caveat:
 
    functionname('arg1','arg2',...,'argn')
 
 or the parenthesis and commas can be removed
 
    functionname 'arg1' 'arg2' ... 'argn'
 
 The quotes are also optional (providing, of course, that the
 argument strings have no spaces in them)
 
    functionname arg1 arg2 ... argn
 
 This special syntax enables you to type hold on instead of
 the more cumbersome hold('on').  The caveat is that FreeMat
 currently only recognizes the special calling syntax as the
 first statement on a line of input.  Thus, the following construction
 
   for i=1:10; plot(vec(i)); hold on; end
 
 would not work.  This limitation may be removed in a future
 version.
 