deprecated functions

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:08 AM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On  5-Mar-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | I don't think we should copy Matlab's defects, and what you suggest is
> | of course sensible. The only reason I didn't do it when I was creating
> | diagonal matrices was the compatibility issue. I have a strong feeling
> | that we should do something like a ballot.
> |
> | As for the work, I'd like to kindly ask you to first share your plans.
> | You see, actually enabling the behavior you ask for is almost as easy
> | as changing the default conversion of diagonal matrices to sparse
> | ones, then I think just about everything will immediatelly work
> | correctly, though not as efficiently as it could.
> | We should certainly specialize diag * sparse and diag \ sparse, and
> | probably also diag + sparse and diag - sparse (because we do so for
> | dense matrices), but it can, and should, be done incrementally.
> |
> | I would like to reuse as much code as reasonably possible here.
>
> Either way, this seems like a fairly significant and risky change, so
> I would prefer to do it after 3.2.
>
> jwe
>

That sounds reasonable.

regards

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