Re: Cell array changes for Octave

[A Scottedward Hodel]

On 5/7/02 8:10 AM, "Cai Jianming" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   * Should we implement lists as a special case of Cell arrays?  I
>>     think yes, but maybe there is a reason not to?  Should lists be
>>     marked as deprecated and removed in a future version of Octave?
> 
> Actually, I don't see the need for lists once we have proper support for
> cell arrays. In fact, passing of parameters for functions should be done via
> cells, as done in Matlab.
> 
> Regards,
> Jianming

lists are used in my octave "legacy" code.  Sure, I could rewrite it, but
backward compatibility would be a nice feature to keep, if at all possible.

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