From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue May  7 11:09:23 2002
Subject: Re: Cell array changes for Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: A Scottedward Hodel <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>
Cc: Cai Jianming <caijianming at yahoo dot co dot uk>,    octave-maintainers mailing list <octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:09:19 -0500

On  7-May-2002, A Scottedward Hodel <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu> wrote:

| 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.

I agree that breaking backward compatibility is not the best thing,
but I'd also prefer to avoid having a lot of redundant code in Octave
that is there just to support some old way of doing things.

In this particular case, I think all the list functions (list, nth,
append, reverse, and splice) can be rewritten as M-files that use
cell arrays.

jwe