From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue May  7 10:54:57 2002
Subject: Re: Cell array changes for Octave
From: A Scottedward Hodel <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>
To: Cai Jianming <caijianming at yahoo dot co dot uk>,    "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
CC: octave-maintainers mailing list <octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 10:55:09 -0500

On 5/7/02 8:10 AM, "Cai Jianming" <caijianming at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote:
>>   * Should we implement lists as a special case of Cell arrays?  I
>>     think yes, but maybe there is a reason not to?  Should lists be
>>     marked as deprecated and removed in a future version of Octave?
> 
> Actually, I don't see the need for lists once we have proper support for
> cell arrays. In fact, passing of parameters for functions should be done via
> cells, as done in Matlab.
> 
> Regards,
> Jianming

lists are used in my octave "legacy" code.  Sure, I could rewrite it, but
backward compatibility would be a nice feature to keep, if at all possible.

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