Re: Matlab has implemented flip after only 10 years - deprecate flipdim

[Olaf Till]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:31:38AM +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> during the codesprint this weekend (before I figured that the subject
> was going to increase line coverage), I added a new function, flip,
> and deprecated flipdim [1]. The function flip is exactly the same as
> flipdim, the only difference being that the first exists in Matlab
> (since R2014a - only 10 years after Octave).
> 
> I'm kinda regretting deprecating it because package maintainers will
> not have a chance to write code that works in both 4.0.X and 4.2.X
> without triggering warnings or errors.

What about checking Octave version in PKG_ADD, and making flip a
handle to flipdim in case of < 4.2.X, or even making something like
flip_package_internal a handle either to flip or flipdim, to avoid
potential name clashes with a users flip?

Olaf

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