[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47320] new function devnull

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #47320 (project octave):

Would this be for the benefit of users or of core Octave scripts?  Rik's
observations seem mainly relevant if the goal is to reduce the code size of
Octave itself.

Python is used for many systems tasks, and so it is natural that it would need
this more often than Octave does.  I can't think of any applications for which
Octave is a natural choice that would use this.

However perhaps it could be part of a system-specific structure variable, with
all sorts of OS/machine/compilation-specific variables, like file-separator,
case-sensitivity of file names, endian-ness, 64-bit indexing etc.

Is there already a structure like that?  How can a .m file find out that
information?

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