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Start deprecation of Fortran exponentiation operator. Replace uses of Fortran exponentiation operator (**) with regular exponentiation operator (^) in Octave code base. * NEWS: Announce deprecation. * oct-inttypes.cc: Replace uses of '**' in comments and BIST tests. * oct-sort.h: Replace uses of '**" in comments. * vectorize.m, __rotate_around_axis__.m, rotate.m, inline-fcn.tst, parser.tst: Replace uses of '**'.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:16:12 -0700
parents ad6a57b215e8
children cefa5d2d30bc
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--- a/NEWS	Sat Aug 21 21:45:19 2021 -0400
+++ b/NEWS	Tue Aug 24 12:16:12 2021 -0700
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
 * `ytickangle`
 * `ztickangle`
 
-### Deprecated functions and properties
+### Deprecated functions, properties, and operators
 
 The following functions and properties have been deprecated in Octave 7
 and will be removed from Octave 9 (or whatever version is the second
@@ -273,6 +273,12 @@
   Object           | Property      | Value
   -----------------|---------------|------------
                    |               |
+- Operators
+
+  Operator | Replacement | Description
+  ---------|-------------|------------
+  **       | ^           | Matrix exponent
+  .**      | .^          | Element-by-element exponent
 
 - Interpreter