Re: [changeset] make str2mat an alias of char

[David Bateman]

Thorsten Meyer wrote:
> Thorsten Meyer wrote:
>   
> > address@hidden wrote:
> >     
> > > Looking at 
> > >
> > > http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/str2mat.html
> > >
> > > it seems that str2mat is considered as obselete. I'd therefore be 
> > > inclined to move str2mat to scripts/deprecated but written as something
> > > like
> > >
> > > function varargout = str2mat (varargin)
> > >   persistent warned = false;
> > >   if (! warned)
> > >     warned = true;
> > >     warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
> > >              "str2mat is obsolete and will be removed from a future 
> > > version of Octave; please use char instead");
> > >   endif
> > >
> > >   varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
> > >   [ varargout{:} ] = char (varargin{:});
> > >
> > > endfunction
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > Fine with me. See the attached patch (had to replace varargout by a fixed output
> > argument to keep behaviour on the command line).
> >
> > Thorsten
> >
> >     
> and again with fixed ChangeLog entries.
>
> Thorsten
>
>   
Ok, so I pushed them to Savannah in the end

D.

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