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<h3 class="section">5.5 Informative block closing</h3>
<p>You may close <code>function</code>, <code>for</code>, <code>while</code>, <code>if</code>,
<small class="dots">...</small> blocks with <code>endfunction</code>, <code>endfor</code>, <code>endwhile</code>,
<small class="dots">...</small> keywords in addition to using <code>end</code>. As with <span class="sc">Matlab</span>, the
<code>end</code> (or <code>endfunction</code>) keyword that marks the end of a
function defined in a <samp><span class="file">.m</span></samp> file is optional.
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