Depreciated Functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Jul-2005, Bill Denney wrote:

| I was thinking of doing some work on functions that are not yet in octave, 
| and so I was looking through the combined octave index 
| (http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/index.html) that also lists matlab 
| functions that are not yet coded.  While going through those functions, I 
| noticed that quad8 was depreciated by matlab and they suggest using quadl 
| (which we already have).
| 
| Would it be considered a good idea for functions like this to just make 
| them simple functions that throw an error suggesting the other function or 
| what is recommended?

Seems reasonable to me.

jwe