Re: graphics future

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Apr-2007, Shai Ayal wrote:

| While I agree that compatibility is important, and what we don't make
| compatible today will come back at us in the form of bug reports and
| help requests, I think that maybe we should not strive, at this point
| in time, to be compatible with the latest feature set of matlab.

I'm not proposing that we get it 100% compatible for 3.0.

| While group objects make these a LITTLE bit more convenient, I fail to
| see what qualitative added value they have.

It is impossible to implement some fairly common plot types (stem,
bar, hist, stairs) in a compatible way without them.

jwe