Re: let's keep printf, puts, and scanf

[John W. Eaton]

Was this change ever discussed?

Kai, please don't go making sweeping changes like this without at least 
asking for comments first.

jwe



On 04/20/2016 01:55 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> Kai,
>
> Is there any particular reason you decided to deprecate printf, puts,
> and scanf [1]? I think these are very useful Octave extensions that a
> lot of users would miss, I know I will.
>
> I think making them m-file wrappers around fprintf, fscanf, and fputs is
> fine, but not marking them as deprecated.
>
> Also the wrappers you created in scripts/deprecated do not work, they
> are not using varargin correctly, see usage.m for an example.
>
> [1]: http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/dcf8922b724b