Re: io-2.4.13 released

[Olaf Till]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:51:04PM +0200, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> and morphing the ods?????
> functions into wrappers for their xls????? counterparts and deprecate them.
> After all, Matlab's xlsread can perfectly read .ods these days and we do
> want to be compatible.

According to Matlab online documentation:

https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/xlsread.html?searchHighlight=xlsread&s_tid=doc_srchtitle

xlsread() is deprecated now in Matlab and readtable(), readmatrix(),
or readcell() should be used.

I'm not familiar with these functions, but from the perspective of
naming, this move of Matlab seems a good one to me. For many people,
'spreadsheet' (if they use this term at all) is the same as 'Excel',
which is a misconception we shouldn't contribute to. But we would, if
we used 'xls...()' for every type of spreadsheet.

Olaf

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