On 10/21/2016 09:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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Removing __dispatch__
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"John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
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10/21/2016 08:13 AM
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About 6 years ago, we deprecated the "dispatch" function. The actual
functionality was moved to the internal function __dispatch__ and a .m
file wrapper preserved the original function name. The dispatch
function was removed in Feb 2012 for the 3.8 release but we kept the
__dispatch__ function and all the internal machinery for it. Now I
can find no uses of either dispatch or __dispatch__ in Octave or
Octave Forge. Does anyone object to completely removing this obsolete
feature?
jwe
More Code = More Maintenance Burden
Seems like a fine idea to get rid of this cruft.