From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Nov 23 09:27:21 2005
Subject: Re: weibull functions
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: Ben Barrowes <barrowes at alum dot mit dot edu>, bug@octave.org
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:20:14 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 23-Nov-2005, Ben Barrowes wrote:
>
>| octave's weibpdf.m has inputs switched from ML's weibpdf.m (now
>| renamed wblpdf.m).
>
>| octave's weibcdf.m and weibinv.m (now wblcdf.m and wblinv.min ML)
>| also has the inputs switched:
>
>| I assume weibrnd.m has its inputs switched as well:
>
>
>Shouldn't we also adopt the new names?  Did Matlab ever have the
>weibpdf, weibcdf, or weibrnd function names?  If not, then we can drop
>those.  If it did, then should we care about compatibility for those
>function names?
>  
>

If I recall correctly, there are other functions like this that have 
been renamed for compatibility. When the new package system is in place, 
why not create backward compatible wrapper functions for all of them, 
take them out of the core octave distribution, and put them in a 
compatibility package?

-Quentin



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