Re: Loading .csv files

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| If that's what MATLAB does, it sounds like a reasonable plan.  If you want 
| to improve on MATLAB functionality without harming compatibility, maybe 
| you could have a datapath in addition to the loadpath, but have the 
| datapath be set by default to equal the loadpath.  That way, new users 
| have MATLAB functionality by default, but Octave would be superior in 
| flexibility/extensibility.

If we have a separate datapath that is initially the same as loadpath,
what happens when a user adds (removes) directories from the
loadpath?  For compatibility, they would expect that load would find
(skip) files in those directories.  So we might as well have just one
path to search for both program and data files.

jwe



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