Re: Has argn gone in Octave 6.1.0?

[Etienne Grossmann]

+Olaf Till, maintainer of the struct octave-forge package.

Nicholas Jankowski <jankowskin@asme.org> (Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:48:22 -0600) wrote:

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:28 Etienne Grossmann via Help-octave <help-octave@gnu.org> wrote:

  Hello,

has the "argn" function disappeared from Octave in version 6.1.0? I don't see any mention of this in the NEWS file.

In short yes. A number of internal variables that were not intended to be user visible have been removed. specific to argn blessed see 

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59401

  Hi Nicholas,

thank you for the pointer. I see "The maintainer for the struct package does need to decide on a solution for bug #59342", hence the cc: to Olaf.

 On my side, I make things work with this patch.

  HTH,

  Etienne

--- struct-1.0.16/inst/tars.m    2019-03-12 08:27:04.334828863 -0700
+++ /home/etienne/octave/struct-1.0.16/tars.m    2020-12-30 22:01:07.897330276 -0800
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
 
 function s = tars (varargin)
 
+  if version()(1) >= 6
+    argn = {};
+    for i = 1:nargin
+      argn{i} = inputname(i);
+    end
+  end
   s = cell2struct (varargin, deblank (cellstr (argn)), 2);
 
 endfunction

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