'whos' with incorrect fields

[dbateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> On 12-Mar-2008, David Bateman wrote:
> 
> | It is matlab compatible behavior. Does that make it correct? The
> | printing of structure fields was deliberately added. See the thread
> | 
> |
> http://www.nabble.com/Evaluating-struct-fields-in-whos-to9236889.html#a9236889
> | 
> | which was added with this patch
> | 
> | 2004-07-23  Oyvind Kristiansen  <oyvinkri at stud.ntnu.no>
> | 
> |         * symtab.cc (symbol_record::subsymbols_list): New method.
> |         (symbol_record::maybe_list): Call to subsymbols_list and merge
> |         result with the original list of symbols.
> | 
> | This was also in the PROJECT file and removed prior to the 3.0 release.
> See
> | 
> | http://www.nabble.com/Cleaned-up-PROJECTS-file-to10639050.html#a10639050
> | 
> | I think the 3.0.0 behavior is useful and I'd like to see it in 3.1.x
> 
> You can get the same information by using a temporary variable, and
> then the who{,s} functions don't have to include the extra complexity
> of looking at argument names and calling eval on them.  For example
> 
>   tmp = A.a; whos tmp
> 
> Also, what information from something like "whos x.a{4}" is not
> available in some other way?  For example
> 
>   size (x.a{4})    (same as Size in whos output)
>   sizeof (x.a{4})  (same as Bytes in whos output)
>   class (x.a{4})   (same as Class in whos output)
> 
> 

Yes the information is available by other means, but using whos was
convenient.. I'll miss it, but seems you've made up your mind..

D.


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