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<H1> E. Grammar </H1>
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Someday I hope to expand this to include a semi-formal description of
Octave's language.
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<H2> E.1 Keywords </H2>
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The following identifiers are keywords, and may not be used as variable
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The following command-like functions are also speical. They may be used
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undefined (you can recover the orginal definition as a function using
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