Add seealso strings to list- related functions.

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Mon Jan 14 19:27:34 CST 2008


On 14-Jan-2008, Muthiah Annamalai wrote:

| I would like to propose a patch to add seealso strings to
| list- related functions like list, nth, reverse, append and splice.
| It helps users to know how to deal with lists, as lists are almost
| impervious to any operations on them, except through the 5
| functions. This patch helps cross reference the functions.

Lists are also obsolete (use cell arrays instead).  So rather than
improving the documentation for them, I think we should probably
officially deprecate them and plan to remove them from a future
version of Octave.

jwe


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