From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Jan 12 00:46:17 2006
Subject: Re: gnuplot gset
From: Petr Mikulik <mikulik at physics dot muni dot cz>
To: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:12:20 -0600

The current octave documentation
    http://www.octave.org/doc/Low_002dLevel-plotting-commands.html
still lists gset, gplot, ... commands. It does not mention their removal.

I propose the following most user-friendly approach: move gset, gplot
from a "hardcoded" way into "userspace", thus into gset.m, gplot.m like

function gset(bla)
global warn_gnuplot_deprecated = 1
if (warn_gnuplot_deprecated) fprintf('gset, gplot, ... are deprecated\n');
   warn_gnuplot_deprecated = 0;
endif
__gnuplot_raw__(bla);
endfunction

If someone does not like the current warning, he can change the global 
variable or write a shadow gset.m.

Names gset, graw are short and easy to use, and it makes no sense to write
them to gnuplot_set or __gnuplot_set__ etc. We could rename them to gpset,
gpraw, gpplot, ... -- but what will be the benefit of such a rename?

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