In a recent project, I tried to parse MATLAB code. During this trying exercise, I stumbled upon a few… unique design decisions of the MATLAB language: Use of apostrophes (') Apostrophes can mean one of two things: If applied as a unary postfix operator, it means transpose. If used as a unary prefix operator, it marks the start of a string. While not a big problem for human readers, this makes code surprisingly hard to parse. The interesting bit about this, though, is the fact that there wou...
