[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #64995] implement height and width as aliases for rows and columns for matlab compatibility

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug#64995 (group octave):

See also bug #50216 but I guess that was submitted when these names were only
used for the table class methods.

One possibility is to define aliases:


diff --git a/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc b/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc
@@ -3008,6 +3008,8 @@ This is equivalent to @code{size (@var{A
   return ovl ((octave_value (args(0)).size ())(0));
 }
 
+DEFALIAS (height, rows);
+
 /*
 %!assert (rows (ones (2,5)), 2)
 %!assert (rows (ones (5,2)), 5)
@@ -3053,6 +3055,8 @@ This is equivalent to @code{size (@var{A
   return ovl ((octave_value (args(0)).size ())(1));
 }
 
+DEFALIAS (width, columns);
+
 DEFUN (sum, args, ,
        doc: /* -*- texinfo -*-
 @deftypefn  {} {@var{y} =} sum (@var{x})




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