Re: islist removed from octave in 3.6.4?

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:19:04 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I try to use the Perl-module Inline::Octave. That module requires the octave
> function 'islist'. That function can not be found in my octave installations 
> of
> version 3.6.4 (neither on openSUSE 12.3, nor on cygwin or on windows octave
> 3.6.4).
>
> <code>
> octave:1> islist
> error: 'islist' undefined near line 1 column 1
> </code>
>
> On a computer with Kubuntu and octave 3.2.4 the function 'islist' is still
> available.
>
> Was the function removed from Octave? I could not find any information on that
> topic in any forums, FAQs, Octave Wiki or searching with Google.
>
> The only info available was that since version 3.4.0 the command is_list was
> replaced by islist.

>From the NEWS for Octave version 3.4:

 ** The list datatype, deprecated since the introduction of cells, has
    been removed.

Implying that islist was also removed, although not explicitly mentioned.

You should take it up with the maintainer of the Inline::Octave module.

-- 
mike