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Why do we have to deprecate and remove functions?
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Andreas Weber |
Subject: |
Why do we have to deprecate and remove functions? |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:39:16 +0100 |
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Dear all,
what is the reason to deprecate functions? Is it just to be as MATLAB
compatible as possible or to keep the codebase as small as possible?
I ask because I have to maintain code which has to run on Octave >=
3.8.2 up to current versions which is often hard because functions were
removed which have worked without problems for years.
One example for a deprecated function is "strmatch". Currently I use it
this way:
strmatch ("foo", {"abcd", "foobar", "foox"})
ans =
2 3
After 5.1.0 I think I have to use:
find (strncmp ("foo", {"abcd", "foobar", "foox"}, numel("foo")))
ans =
2 3
-- Andy
- Why do we have to deprecate and remove functions?,
Andreas Weber <=