On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:52:15PM +0000, Carnë Draug wrote:
> Hi
>
> the ismatrix function in Octave will change for the new version 4.0.
> Currently, this function returns true if it is a numeric, logical, or
> character array with any number of dimensions. The new version will
> return true if the object has two dimensions even if it is a cell or
> struct array.
>
> WARNING: ismatrix() will return true for a struct and false for
> ND numeric arrays.
>
> I quickly grepped Octave Forge for ismatrix and it is used in most of the
> packages. Would be nice if this is fixed in the packages
Done for optim and parallel,
> and there were
> new released of them before Octave 4.0.
but no new releases yet. Is now already a good time to finally check
packages for Octave 4.0 compatibility? Or should we take the time when
Octaves test tarballs are out?