Depreciated Functions

[Bill Denney]

I was thinking of doing some work on functions that are not yet in octave, 
and so I was looking through the combined octave index 
(http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html) that also lists matlab 
functions that are not yet coded.  While going through those functions, I 
noticed that quad8 was depreciated by matlab and they suggest using quadl 
(which we already have).

Would it be considered a good idea for functions like this to just make 
them simple functions that throw an error suggesting the other function or 
what is recommended?

Bill

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