Re: predicate name changes

[Paul Kienzle]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:35:33AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I've changed the names of the following predicates in CVS Octave:
> 
>   is_bool     is_list    is_square  is_symmetric
>   is_complex  is_matrix  is_stream  is_vector
>   is_global   is_scalar  is_struct
> 
> They no longer have the underscore, so is_bool is now isbool,
> is_complex is iscomplex, etc.
> 
> There is a new directory of M-files (in the sources it is
> scripts/deprecated) so the old names still work, but if you ask for
> help for any of the old function names, you will be told that the
> function is deprecated and to use the new name.
> 
> Now I need someone to search through the Octave sources and convert
> all the uses of the old names to the new, and submit patches for these
> changes.
> 
> Can someone please do this?

address@hidden scripts]$ grep -ld skip is_ */* */*/* | wc
    262     262    6395

I'll do signal/ and strings/ this morning.  How do you want the patches?
One per file?  One per directory?  One per toolbox?  One for everything?

Paul Kienzle
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