20  Function Handles and Evaluation

octave	description
@func	create a function handle to func
@(vars) expr	define an anonymous function
str2func func2str	convert function to/from string
functions (handle)	Return information about a function handle
f (args)	Evaluate a function handle f
feval	Evaluate a function handle or string
eval (str)	evalute str as a command
system (cmd)	execute abitrary shell command string

Anonymous function handles make a copy of the variables in the current workspace at the time of creation.