Re: strsplit needs an update

[Carnë Draug]

On 30 March 2013 15:50, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
>> So this is why it's always an annoyance to try to implement something
>> before Matlab... We've had strsplit since 2009 in Octave, and in 2013,
>> TMW finally implements it themselves, with a differing calling form
>> than ours:
>>
>>    http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/strsplit.html
>>
>> Anyone feel like chasing after this?
>>
>> - Jordi G. H.
>
> I've prepared a version that is compatible with Matlab, but compatibility 
> means that the current behavior must be broken.  There are many files which 
> rely upon strsplit().
>
> [...]
>
> I've modified the files to use the new version, and produced a changeset.  I 
> don't see any regressions, but this may break some code on Octave-Forge.

It does. There's a couple of functions in OF that use strsplit. The
problem would be matching a new release of Octave and packages that
make use of it.

Is anyone interested in contacting Mathworks to propose formation of
some sort of consortium to avoid this sort of things in the future? :p

Carnë