Re: Adding functions to octave base?

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Judd Storrs <jstorrs <at> gmail.com> writes:


> ifelse seems to be a builtin and has been in the development branch for a 
year 

Huh.

> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/983de84e4bf3. 
>
>  If your ifelse() is compatible with octave's it would probably be helpful to 
get that somewhere in octave-forge.

Matlab doesn't have an ifelse in their alpha list of functions.

The one I wrote approximates the ternary function (like "iff" in 
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/147044, though I 
think that is a bad name).

> Is there a forward-compatiblity/backports section on octave-forge?

hehe, I am not submitting this to octave-forge, thanks for the idea though ;)