[Changeset] Re: namelengthmax?

[Bill Denney]

David Bateman wrote:
> Bill Denney wrote:
>   
>> My personal thoughts are that since we go for Matlab compatibility in
>> almost all things and since it is not really useful for octave, we
>> should have the function and it should have a warning similar to what
>> you discuss above and then it should return 63.
>>     
> Yeah that's what I thought.. See the attached patch..
>   
>> P.S.  You're welcome to implement the hard ones, I was just going for
>> the easy ones.  :)
>>     
> Hey the easy ones are faster to implement, and you can't get much easier
> than
>
> function n = namelengthmax ()
>   n = 63;
> endfunction
>
> There are still over 400 missing functions, so I'm sure we can't find
> some other easy ones :-)
True.  Though are you sure that you don't want to add a few test cases 
to that function?  :)

I've almost finished re-writing my missing function finder.  It's 
getting pretty good (automatically grab the latest list from mathworks, 
use their categorization, and then output the wiki format).

Have a good day,

Bill