Re: statistics distributions function names

[Bill Denney]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Miller wrote:

> Someone suggested the use of aliases.  How are aliases used in Octave? 
> We could use symbolic links.

I wasn't exactly suggesting aliases (I don't know of any alias 
functionality in octave), I was actually thinking of doing different 
functions.  One easy way to do it would be to do something like the 
following (assuming matlab has the same functionality and arguement 
order, using the function names that you noticed):

=== Begin poissinv.m
## poissinv - see poission_inv

function [varargout] = poissinv(varargin)

warning("poissinv: this function name is for compatibiltiy with matlab, see 
poisson_inv")
varargout = poisson_inv(varargin{:});
=== End poissinv.m

I'm not positive if varargout would work correctly here, more specifically 
if there is a way to force nargout to be correct without doing something 
like

if (nargout == 0)
    poisson_inv(varargin{:});
elseif (nargout == 1)
    varargout{1} = poisson_inv(varargin{:});
...
endif

Bill

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