Re: Deprecate cut()?

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:49 PM, forkandwait wrote:

> There is a discussion at the bug tracker regarding whether cut() should be
> deprecated, a warning added, or taken out of main.  I vote add a warning and
> leave in, but now that I have been educated about histc, I will never use 
> cut()
> again anyway (though a lot of people coming from R/SPLUS or other languages
> might try a cut() function like I did).
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29445
> 

I couldn't find any examples where cut() was being used in the sources. So it 
doesn't appear deprecating cut() would require much work.

However, it appears to have been included in the sources 12 yrs ago. 

        
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/log/942386d6d1a5/scripts/statistics/base/cut.m

So, It is possible that many users are using it.

Personally, I like the functionality, and would like to keep it.

Ben