Re: why do we still have stdnormal_{cdf,inv,pdf,rnd}?

[Søren Hauberg]

tor, 19 02 2009 kl. 14:49 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> Does anyone know if there is some reason that these functions have not
> been moved to the deprecated directory yet?  It seems that Matlab uses
> the names normcdf, norminv, normpdf, and normrnd, and Octave also has
> those now.  So unless anyone objects, I think we should move these to
> the deprecated directory before the 3.2 release.
> 
>   stdnormal_cdf
>   stdnormal_inv
>   stdnormal_pdf
>   stdnormal_rnd

It makes sense to do so.

Out of curiosity: what happens to functions in the deprecated directory?
I assume they are removed at some point. For how many releases do they
stay? Are there any functions that should be removed for 3.2?

Soren