What is the purpose of the 5 second countdown?

[jsdpag]

Dear ARCADEians,

I'm a bit puzzled as to why runCore.m has a countdown in the shutdown sequence:

ARCADE/arcade/Core/runCore.m

Lines 118 to 124 in 4020e70

	logmessage('Closing MATLAB in 5 s. Press CTRL+C to cancel or see log files');
	for seconds = 5:-1:0
	fprintf('%g', seconds)
	pause(1)
	fprintf('\b')
	end

Is this necessary to prevent some kind of crash? Or is it meant to be a user-friendly feature?

Best,
Jackson

[joschaschmiedt]

If I remember correctly it was introduced to give users time to read the contents of the command window, in particular potential errors, warnings and output folders. No technical reason.