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Re: error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: error: feval: function `unimplemented' not found
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:17:51 -0500

2012/1/18 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>:
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
>> On 18 January 2012 15:15, Mikey G <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
>>>>
>>>> What do you suggest the warning should be
>>>> instead?
>>>>
>>>> - Jordi G. H.
>>>
>>> Yea that seems excessive.  I don't think all that detail is necessary,
>>> especially for people new to octave.  Perhaps just something along the lines
>>> of:
>>>
>>> warning: default search path has been overwritten and functionality may be
>>> lost.  Restore default search path by entering restoredefaultpath or by
>>> restarting Octave
>>
>> Ah, now you want me to implement a function to save the default path
>> at startup so it can be restored later...
>>
>> I'll... get around to it... some day... ;-)
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
>
> I think load-path.cc:restoredefaultpath() already does that.

Not quite... it restores the compiled-in default path, but if you
overrode that with startup options like the run-octave script does, it
doesn't restore those.

Admittedly, this may be a rather edge case.

Ok, fine, I'll just use the warning message Mikey Grissom suggested.

- Jordi G. H.


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