[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62395] Compatability feature request - std and var optionally return mean as 2nd output

[Rik]

Update of bug #62395 (project octave):

                  Status:          Ready For Test => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

@Nicholas: Thanks for taking care of this.  I see that your changesets are
getting closer to perfection.  We have some guidelines that might be useful on
the Octave Wiki at https://wiki.octave.org/Contribute.  I don't know why they
are buried so deeply.

One thing I saw in the commit message is that you are using full paths to
files within the source tree.  We just use the file name unless there would be
confusion.  So, we write


* std.m: ....


instead of


* scripts/statistics/std.m: ....


Helpful notes for commit messages are at
https://wiki.octave.org/Commit_message_guidelines.

Second, the documentation has a very specific tone and is written in the
active voice and present tense.  There are guidlines for the help text at
https://wiki.octave.org/Help_text_style_guide.

Instead of "The function will calculate the ..." we write "Function calculates
the ...".

I made these simple changes for Octave coding conventions and then got
absorbed in cleaning up/optimizing std.m and var.m.  I checked everything in
here if you want to take a look
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1bf26f913b9c).

Marking bug as Fixed and closing report.


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