From octave-sources-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Nov 22 10:16:22 2002
Subject: Re: a couple of simple functions for Matlab compatibility
From: Rafael Laboissiere <laboissiere at psy dot mpg dot de>
To: schraudo at inf dot ethz dot ch
Cc: octave-sources at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:45:53 -0600

* schraudo at inf dot ethz dot ch <schraudo@inf.ethz.ch> [2002-11-22 06:24]:

> while I'm at it, I also wrote a number of trivial to simple functions that
> improve octave's compatibility with Matlab.  These were created without
> reference to the corresponding Matlab code, so there should be no copyright
> issues.  Feel free to include them in future releases of octave.

Besides betaln, besselh1, ans, besselh2, lbeta, and ndims, the functions
that you implemented exist already in octave-forge (or even in octave 2.1,
as for besselh, lower, and upper):

$ tar tfvz /var/tmp/compat.tgz | perl -ne íf(m{/([^/]*)\.m}){print "which
$1\n"}'| octave
besselh is the dynamically-linked function from the file
/usr/lib/octave/2.1.36/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu/besselh.oct
which: `betaln' is undefined
factor is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/site/m/octave-forge/specfun/factor.m
isequal is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/site/m/octave-forge/general/isequal.m
isfinite is a built-in mapper function
isprime is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/site/m/octave-forge/specfun/isprime.m
isreal is a built-in function
primes is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/site/m/octave-forge/specfun/primes.m
repmat is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/site/m/octave-forge/general/repmat.m
which: `besselh1' is undefined
which: `ans' is undefined
which: `besselh2' is undefined
gammaln is a built-in mapper function
which: `lbeta' is undefined
lower is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/m/strings/lower.m
nchoosek is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/site/m/octave-forge/specfun/nchoosek.m
which: `ndims' is undefined
upper is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/share/octave/2.1.36/m/strings/upper.m


You might be interested in merging/donating your code to the octave-forge
project.

-- 
Rafael Laboissiere