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1 * Improve the index. |
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3 * Describe the grammar (grammar.texi). |
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5 * More examples. |
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6 |
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7 * Some things from NEWS that might not be documented yet: |
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8 |
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9 * Expressions of the form |
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10 |
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11 A(i,j) = x |
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12 |
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13 where X is a scalar and the indices i and j define a matrix of |
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14 elements now work as you would expect rather than giving an error. |
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15 I am told that this is how Matlab 5.0 will behave when it is |
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16 released. |
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17 (assignment) |
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18 |
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19 * Octave's parser now does some simple constant folding. This means |
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20 that expressions like 3*i are now evaluated only once, when a |
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21 function is compiled, and the right hand side of expressions like |
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22 a = [1,2;3,4] are treated as true matrix constants rather than |
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23 lists of elements which must be evaluated each time they are |
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24 needed. |
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25 (???) |
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26 |
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27 * Octave now attempts to continue after floating point exceptions |
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28 or out-of-memory errors. |
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29 (???) |
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30 |
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31 * If Octave crashes, it now attempts to save all user-defined |
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32 variables in a file named `octave-core' in the current directory |
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33 before exiting. |
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34 (???) |
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35 |
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36 * The info reader is now a separate binary that runs as a |
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37 subprocess. You still need the info reader distributed with |
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38 Octave though, because there are some new command-line arguments |
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39 that are not yet available in the public release of Info. |
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40 (install) |
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41 |
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42 * If it is present, Octave will now use an `ls-R' database file to |
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43 speed up recursive path searching. Octave looks for a file called |
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44 ls-R in the directory specified by the environment variable |
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45 OCTAVE_DB_DIR. If that is not set but the environment variable |
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46 OCTAVE_HOME is set, Octave looks in $OCTAVE_HOME/lib/octave. |
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47 Otherwise, Octave looks in the directory $datadir/octave (normally |
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48 /usr/local/lib/octave). |
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49 (install) |
