Re: effin' compatibility

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Sep-2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:

| Maybe we can introduce the notion of namespaces to sort this out?
| 
| Something like "namespace octave2" means that all subsequent
| function lookups for the remainder of the current context
| are done in the octave2 namespace.

I'm hesitant to do this because of the future compatibility problems
that might arise.

| This is too much work for this case alone, but this is a
| recurring problem, so a general solution would be nice.  There
| are a lot of details to work out about the syntax an semantics
| of namespaces so it wouldn't be a quick fix.

In this case, I decided to go for just changing the behavior for
compatibility.  It currently affects only mkdir and rmdir, which are
probably not used in the 2 or 3 output mode very often.

jwe