From help-request at octave dot org Fri Jun 24 04:13:06 2005 Subject: Re: statistics distributions function names From: Jeff Abrahamson To: help at octave dot org Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:07:20 -0400 On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Bill Denney wrote: > [44 lines, 225 words, 1528 characters] Top characters: -teonias > > I think that one reason is when functions don't have the exact same > functionality as the ML functions. > > What do people think about (if there is a case where the function has a > reason to not be the same as the matlab function) putting an empty > function that just spits out an error and has help text pointing to the > octave function? That strikes me as something without much difficulty and > it would help people transition code to Octave. If the functionality is the same, it would be good to at least have an alias to the compatible name. If the functionality is even slightly different, the above scheme sounds ideal. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------