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changeset 16884:24574e15ac4b
NEWS: Add new functions debug_jit, jit_enable to list.
Re-order strsplit, colormap discussions to appear farther down.
| author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:43:15 -0700 |
| parents | 9a0f8287417a |
| children | fb80e1891cf9 |
| files | NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,39 +17,6 @@ Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.8: --------------------------------------------------------- - ** strsplit has been modified to be compatible with Matlab. There - are two instances where backward compatibility is broken. - - (1) Delimiters are now string vectors, not scalars. - - Octave's legacy behavior - - strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ") - ans = - { - [1,1] = 1 - [1,2] = 2 - [1,3] = - [1,4] = 3 - } - - Matlab compatible behavior - - strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ") - ans = - { - [1,1] = 1 2 - [1,2] = 3 - } - - (2) By default, Matlab treats consecutive delimiters are as a single - delimiter. By default, Octave's legacy behavior was to return an - empty string for the part between the delmiters. - - Where the legacy behavior is desired, the call to strsplit() may be - replaced by ostrsplit(), which is Octave's original implementation of - strsplit(). - ** Octave now supports nested functions with scoping rules that are compatible with Matlab. A nested function is one declared and defined within the body of another function. The nested function is only @@ -115,12 +82,6 @@ Octave:array-as-scalar => Octave:array-to-scalar Octave:array-as-vector => Octave:array-to-vector - ** The colormap function now provides new options--"list", "register", - and "unregister"--to list all available colormap functions, and to - add or remove a function name from the list of known colormap - functions. Packages that implement extra colormaps should use these - commands with PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL statements. - ** The m-files in the image directory have been overhauled. The principal benefit is that Octave will now no longer automatically @@ -133,6 +94,45 @@ colormap depending on the image class (integer images have a -1 offset to the colormap row number). + ** The colormap function now provides new options--"list", "register", + and "unregister"--to list all available colormap functions, and to + add or remove a function name from the list of known colormap + functions. Packages that implement extra colormaps should use these + commands with PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL statements. + + ** strsplit has been modified to be compatible with Matlab. There + are two instances where backward compatibility is broken. + + (1) Delimiters are now string vectors, not scalars. + + Octave's legacy behavior + + strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ") + ans = + { + [1,1] = 1 + [1,2] = 2 + [1,3] = + [1,4] = 3 + } + + Matlab compatible behavior + + strsplit ("1 2, 3", ", ") + ans = + { + [1,1] = 1 2 + [1,2] = 3 + } + + (2) By default, Matlab treats consecutive delimiters are as a single + delimiter. By default, Octave's legacy behavior was to return an + empty string for the part between the delmiters. + + Where the legacy behavior is desired, the call to strsplit() may be + replaced by ostrsplit(), which is Octave's original implementation of + strsplit(). + ** The datevec function has been extended for better Matlab compatibility. It now accepts string inputs in the following numerical formats: 12, 21, 22, 26, 29, 31. This is undocumented, but verifiable, Matlab behavior. @@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ copyobj gco splinefit dawson hdl2struct strjoin dblist history_save struct2hdl - doc_cache_create importdata tetramesh - ellipj iscolormap waterfall + debug_jit importdata tetramesh + doc_cache_create iscolormap waterfall + ellipj jit_enable ** Deprecated functions. @@ -204,21 +205,14 @@ be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the second major release after 3.8): - default_save_options - gen_doc_cache - java_convert_matrix - java_debug - java_get - java_invoke - java_new - java_set - java_unsigned_conversion - javafields - javamethods - re_read_readline_init_file - read_readline_init_file - saving_history - + default_save_options java_set + gen_doc_cache java_unsigned_conversion + java_convert_matrix javafields + java_debug javamethods + java_get re_read_readline_init_file + java_invoke read_readline_init_file + java_new saving_history + The following keywords have been deprecated in Octave 3.8 and will be removed from Octave 3.12 (or whatever version is the second major release after 3.8):