deprecated functions

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Jason Riedy <jason at acm.org> wrote:
> And Jaroslav Hajek writes:
>> Do you mean you relied on the extended version already in your code?
>
> Yes.  What's worse: The new diagonal matrices make sparse matrices
> dense.  They're worse than useless to me right now.
>

This comment is worse than useless. What exactly is working incorrectly?

> Working on diag&sparse ops right now, but feel free to beat me to it.

For backward and matlab compatibility, diagonal matrices are converted
to full when they meet sparse matrices.
We could certainly change it (I'm not basically against), but it's the
kind of change that needs to be widely discussed and justified.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz