[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62431] 'format' function inputs and outputs a display state object

[Rik]

Update of bug #62431 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I wouldn't spend too much time on this just now.  Matlab has a history of
changing interfaces and R2021a is pretty new and subject to further revision.

For the longest time they had a system where you had to query the root
graphics object to find the numeric format.  This seemed so obviously broken
that I coded format() to return the current state in output variables.  As is
also a Matlab practice, they adopted what Octave has done but with tweaks to
make it incompatible.  I further don't understand the fetish with object
oriented programming.  There is no real need to have an instance of a
dedicated class here when simple variables or a struct would suffice.




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