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## 5 What features are unique to Octave?

- Functions defined on the command-line
- Comments with #
- Strings delimited by double quotes "
- Line continuation by backslash
- Informative block closing
- Coherent syntax
- Exclamation mark as not operator
- Increment and decrement operators
- Unwind-protect
- Built-in ODE and DAE solvers

This section refers to Matlab R2010b and Octave 3.4.0.