Re: stubs for missing functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Mar-2010, S ren Hauberg wrote:

| tir, 23 03 2010 kl. 15:52 -0700, skrev S ren Hauberg:
| > tir, 23 03 2010 kl. 18:33 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
| > > We frequently see people sending bug reports or questions on the help
| > > list about functions that are available in Matlab but missing from
| > > Octave.
| > [snip]
| > > Comments?
| > 
| > I think this idea is good. Just a few minor comments/questions:
| 
| Ohh, I also forgot to mention that this might be annoying when it comes
| to tab-completion. I would find it really confusing if I pressed tab and
| was confronted with a list of functions that I actually couldn't use.
| Perhaps a solution would be to have a function 'isstub' that determined
| if a function was only a stub. The warning system and the tab-completion
| system could then skip functions where 'isstub' returns true. Such a
| function would also be of use to me in the 'generate_html' package that
| we use to create the Octave-Forge web site. This would allow us to not
| generate web pages for stubs or at least to mark it clearly that the
| function is but a stub.

Yes, I agree we should have some way of ignoring stub functions for
all these reasons.

jwe