From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Aug  9 11:03:03 2002
Subject: Re: predicate name changes
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: Etienne Grossmann <etienne at isr dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt>,    "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Cc: octave-maintainers mailing list <octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:03:00 -0400

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:46:25PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> 
>   I found and replaced 533 occurences of these functions in octave
> CVS. Would you like me to send you a huge patch? I will first do a
> build process and try 'make check'. Any other goals for checking?

You did just the is_xxx listed below correct?  Because there are a
number of is_xxx in control which have not been changed (yet).

Keep the script around.  We are going to need it for octave-forge
soon.  I'm not sure when to do this.  I don't want to force all
octave-forge users to bleeding edge, but keeping things working
across versions is going to be painful.  I guess we will need a set
of isxxx in FIXES/oldversionsofoctave/* which call is_xxx.

- Paul

> 
>   Cheers
> 
>   Etienne
> 
> PS : I used two script for the substitution. The first finds
>      occurences and printing them out. I then looked for spurious
>      occurences of the function names (I found none). The second
>      script reads the (perhaps amended, but that was not needed) list
>      of occurences and does the changes in it.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 02:35:33AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> # I've changed the names of the following predicates in CVS Octave:
> # 
> #   is_bool     is_list    is_square  is_symmetric
> #   is_complex  is_matrix  is_stream  is_vector
> #   is_global   is_scalar  is_struct
> # 
> # They no longer have the underscore, so is_bool is now isbool,
> # is_complex is iscomplex, etc.
> # 
> # There is a new directory of M-files (in the sources it is
> # scripts/deprecated) so the old names still work, but if you ask for
> # help for any of the old function names, you will be told that the
> # function is deprecated and to use the new name.
> # 
> # Now I need someone to search through the Octave sources and convert
> # all the uses of the old names to the new, and submit patches for these
> # changes.
> # 
> # Can someone please do this?
> # 
> # Thanks,
> # 
> # jwe
> # 
> # 
> # 
> 
> -- 
> Etienne Grossmann ------ http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~etienne
>