Shai Ayal wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> > | While group objects make these a LITTLE bit more convenient, I
>> fail to
>> > | see what qualitative added value they have.
>> >
>> > It is impossible to implement some fairly common plot types (stem,
>> > bar, hist, stairs) in a compatible way without them.
>>
>> Take stem for example. Where is the incompatibility? What portion of
>> this
>> incompatibility has to do with the graphics engine?
>
> Well, stem should return a stemseries object:
> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/stem.html
> so, the incompatibility is only in the return values. All input
> parameters can be parsed and drawn in a compatible way with core
> objects only
OK, so there's another doll inside the Matryoshka, a 'v6' option. Apparently
what John implemented is version 6 and must remain. The hggroup is an
additional factor. The stem series was may have been introduced because of the
fact the more object-like handle for each line was too slow to render.