Re: save function

[Robert A. Macy]

GOOD IDEA!  

Actually that more relates to what happens.  

I have an editor that can change all my 
save -ascii
to 
save -text 
pretty painlessly

As bad as it makes octave, octave's goal is to be
compatible with matLab language, but there's nothing wrong
having functionally better "extra's" here and there.  

                        - Robert -


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:28:26 -0500
 "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  8-Mar-2005, Robert A. Macy <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
> | My two cents...
> | 
> | Leave alone save function
> | 
> | I have not experienced any problems with it.  If I
> don't
> | want the header, I throw it away.  
> 
> I think that's a good solution, but apparently some
> people want
> bug-for-bug(*) compatibility.
> 
> In any case, I would not do away with Octave's save
> format.  The
> question is whether it is worth making the backwardly
> incompatible
> (for Octave) but compatible (with Matlab) change so that
> -ascii works
> as it does in Matlab.  We would move the current -ascii
> behavior to a
> different option, perhaps -oct-ascii or -text or
> something.
> 
> --------
>   * Though I suppose one person's bug is another's prized
> feature...



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