Re: Looking for help?

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Sep-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| If a project like that is too much, I just looked at the alphabetical
| function index for Matlab 2007b and note that Octave includes in the
| core just over half of the Matlab functions. You might pick one of the
| missing functions and implement it. I supply my list of functions from
| 2007b sorted into those that are in the Octave core and those that
| aren't. Before implementing a function you should check that it isn't
| already in octave-forge.

Also, if you choose to contribute one of the missing functions, it is
essential that yours is an independent implementation.  You should
never use the .m files distributed with Matlab as a reference for your
code.  Sorry if this seems obvious, but I find that it needs to be
stated periodically.

jwe