[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51329] nth_element / median function fail with disable_range(true) (or with --traditional)

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #22, bug #51329 (project octave):

The idea of the traditional option seems to be to make Octave more
similar to Matlab by disabling a set of features (you can see what
features get disabled and variables set in maximum_braindamage
function):

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/69a111259a2c/libinterp/corefcn/interpreter.cc#l175

Then this means that we can't use such Octave features at all in the
whole Octave, or that we need to always code alternative for when said
features are disabled.  I'm not sure if that's the way to go, it seems
more work for no good reason.

I would rather just remove the traditional option.  Alternatively,
change the option to only set some style variables and to not disable
any feature.

The previous name for the traditional option (braindamage) was maybe
more fitting since you mainly set Octave to have less features.

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