Scilab Bag Of Tricks - Claymore

function y ..
= foo(x)
function y = foo(a, b, c, d, ..
e, f, g, h)
The following examples are all illegal:
function y = foo(x) // This is foo!
function y = save_space(x); y = 1 + x
function y = bar(x) ..
y = 1 + x
See also Section 4.4.
2.4. Last Newline
Chapter 2. Pitfalls
The last line in a Scilab script is ignored if it is not terminated by a newline. 1 This is emphasized at
several places in the official Scilab documentation, but it is so common to forget it especially when
using emacs that we repeat it here. emacs however can be told always to add a final newline by
adding (setq require-final-newline t) to the startup-file, .emacs. See “Learning GNU
Emacs” [Cameron:1996] , Table C-8.
Another weapon against this kind of syntax flaw, and a few other pesky things, is e.g. the Perl-script
shown in Example 2-2, which fixes part of the format of a Scilab script.
Example 2-2. Canonicalization of Scilab files
use Text::Tabs;
while () {
chomp; # remove newline if there is one
tr/\200-\377/ /; # map 8-bit chars to spaces
s[\s+$][]; # kill whitespace at end of line
$_ = expand $_; # convert tabs to spaces
print "$_\n"; # print adding a newline
}
1. On UNI* systems the line terminator is ^J, which is writtan in C-style \n most of the time.
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