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Re: statistics distributions function names


From: Jeff Abrahamson
Subject: Re: statistics distributions function names
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:07:20 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Bill Denney wrote:
>   [44 lines, 225 words, 1528 characters]  Top characters: -teonias
> 
> I think that one reason is when functions don't have the exact same 
> functionality as the ML functions.
> 
> What do people think about (if there is a case where the function has a 
> reason to not be the same as the matlab function) putting an empty 
> function that just spits out an error and has help text pointing to the 
> octave function?  That strikes me as something without much difficulty and 
> it would help people transition code to Octave.

If the functionality is the same, it would be good to at least have an
alias to the compatible name.

If the functionality is even slightly different, the above scheme
sounds ideal.

-- 
 Jeff

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