From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Apr  4 01:45:43 2006
Subject: Beyond 2.9.5
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 02:45:37 -0400

I have the following plans for significant changes:

  * Removal of built-in variables.  See the discussion on the
    maintainers list about DEFVARs.

  * Changes to the octave_value class hierarchy.  For some info about
    this change, see the following messages

      http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2004/437
      http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2004/443
      http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2005/960
      http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2005/961
      http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/octave-maintainers/2005/962

    I have a patch for this ready to go, but it will probably force a
    few changes in user-defined data types so I wanted some comments
    about it before committing the changes.

  * Integrate Soren Hauberg's package system.

  * Implement at least a simple form of the [x{:}] = fcn () syntax.

  * Fix the behavior of anonymous functions as we have discussed
    recently.


Comments?

jwe