Problem 679. Alias abs to asb

Created by Richard Zapor

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James on 15 May 2012

I'll take one of these for "spritnf" please...

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Brett Shoelson on 14 May 2012

Your test suite is not a good one; you shouldn't declare asb to be global. Instead, you should just allow the function declaration to contain 'asb', as in:

function x = asb(x)
x = abs(x)
end

And do you _really_ think we should program MATLAB to try to fix your typos? That's a recipe for disaster!
Brett

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