inconsistent condition numbers from cond, det, inv functions

Ben Abbott bpabbott at mac.com
Fri Feb 8 05:36:27 CST 2008


On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:21 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> One thing I should also add is that I started putting Author tags in
> .m files for the same reasons I believe they are in Emacs Lisp files,
> and that's so that when there is a bug it is easy to send mail to the
> author of the file to ask for help in fixing the bug.  The Emacs
> maintainers actually do use these tags in their files, but that's not
> the way things typically work for Octave.  Also, the author
> information is usually available somewhere else (ChangeLog or revision
> control system) so having the tags in the .m files themselves is
> probably not that important now.
>
> jwe

John,

I've used the authorship lines in the past to get help fixing bugs/ 
features. I'd like to preserver that capability. Any reason why  
additional names can't be included, along with a change from "Author"  
to "Contributor(s)" or such?

Ben



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