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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.6:
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4 ** The PCRE library is now required to build Octave.
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6 ** New functions added.
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11 ** Deprecated functions.
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13 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.2 and have been
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14 removed from Octave 3.6.
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16 create_set spcholinv splu
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17 dmult spcumprod spmax
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18 iscommand spcumsum spmin
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19 israwcommand spdet spprod
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20 lchol spdiag spqr
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21 loadimage spfind spsum
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22 mark_as_command sphcat spsumsq
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23 mark_as_rawcommand spinv spvcat
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24 spatan2 spkron str2mat
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25 spchol splchol unmark_command
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26 spchol2inv split unmark_rawcommand
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28 The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.6 and will
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29 be removed from Octave 3.10 (or whatever version is the second major
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35 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4:
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38 ** BLAS and LAPACK libraries are now required to build Octave. The
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39 subset of the reference BLAS and LAPACK libraries has been removed
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42 ** The ARPACK library is now distributed with Octave so it no longer
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43 needs to be available as an external dependency when building
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44 Octave.
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46 ** The `lookup' function was extended to be more useful for
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47 general-purpose binary searching. Using this improvement, the
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48 ismember function was rewritten for significantly better
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49 performance.
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52 cache the internal index_vector value (zero-based indices) when
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53 successfully used as indices, eliminating the conversion penalty for
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54 subsequent indexing by the same matrix. In particular, this means it
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58 ** Logical matrices are now treated more efficiently when used as
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60 ratio of true elements is small enough, using a specialized
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61 code. Previously, all logical matrices were always first converted
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62 to index vectors. This results in savings in both memory and
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63 computing time.
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71 `times', `mtimes', `and', and `or') have been extended to accept
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72 multiple arguments. This is especially useful for summing
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73 (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects (of possibly distinct types):
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75 matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:});
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90 Octave versions.
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95 assert (2*linspace (1, 5, 5), 2*(1:5))
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96 assert (zeros (0, 0), [])
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97 assert (2*ones (1, 5), (2) (ones (1,5)))
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100 `issymmetric' has been changed for better consistency.
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105 Hence, `ismatrix ([])' was false,
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106 while `ismatrix (zeros (1,2,0))' was true.
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111 ismatrix (x) && ndims (x) == 2 && rows (x) == columns (x)
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113 The dimension is no longer returned. As a result, `issquare ([])'
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119 `issymmetric ([])' is now true.
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121 ** Function handles are now aware of overloaded functions. If a
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132 ** Performance of concatenation (using []) and the functions `cat',
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133 `horzcat', and `vertcat' has been improved for multidimensional
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134 arrays.
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136 ** The operation-assignment operators +=, -=, *= and /= now behave more
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137 efficiently in certain cases. For instance, if M is a matrix and S a
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138 scalar, then the statement
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140 M += S;
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143 variable, usually increasing both time and memory efficiency.
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145 Only selected common combinations are affected, namely:
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147 matrix += matrix
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148 matrix -= matrix
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309 confirm_recursive_rmdir (false, "local");
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310 [status, msg] = rmdir (dir, "s");
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312 endfunction
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314 Upon return, confirm_recursive_rmdir will be restored to the value
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315 it had on entry to the function, even if there were subsequent
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316 changes to the variable in function rm_rf or any of the functions
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317 it calls.
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325 package and attempt to install it. No automatic resolving of
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326 dependencies is provided. Further,
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328 pkg list -forge
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335 dimensions or values, making operations that preserve the fields
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338 memory-efficient. Certain array-like operations on structs
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346 format short eng
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349 Both display numbers in engineering notation, i.e., mantissa +
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350 exponent where the exponent is a multiple of 3.
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354 accumdim erfcx nfields pqpnonneg uigetdir
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355 bitpack fileread nth_element quadcc uigetfile
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356 bitunpack fminbnd onCleanup randi uiputfile
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357 blkmm fskipl pbaspect repelems uimenu
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358 cbrt ifelse pie3 reset whitebg
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359 curl ishermitian powerset rsf2csf
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360 chop isindex ppder saveas
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361 daspect luupdate ppint strread
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362 divergence merge ppjumps textread
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365 as display, xv, and xloadimage is no longer supported. The
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366 image_viewer function has also been removed.
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370 value:
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372 a = 1;
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373 a.x = 2;
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375 This is no longer possible unless a is an empty matrix or cell
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376 array.
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378 ** The dlmread function has been extended to allow specifying a custom
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379 value for empty fields.
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381 ** The dlmread and dlmwrite functions have been modified to accept
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382 file IDs (as returned by fopen) in addition to file names.
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385 anonymous function handle, if the function simply calls another
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387 values. Example:
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389 f = @(x) sum (x, 1);
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391 When f is called, the call is forwarded to @sum with the constant 1
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392 appended, and the anonymous function call does not occur on the
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393 call stack.
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396 mu2lin (x, 0).
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399 command lines are added to the history list when Octave is using
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400 readline for command-line editing. For example
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407 avoid bugs in operating system functions.
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409 ** Deprecated functions.
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411 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and have been
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412 removed from Octave 3.4.
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415 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
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417 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
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418 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
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419 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
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420 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
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421 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
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422 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
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423 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
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424 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
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425 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
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426 clearplot is_square t_pdf
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427 clg is_stream t_rnd
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428 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
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429 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
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430 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
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431 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
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432 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
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433 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
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434 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
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435 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
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436 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
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437 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
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438 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
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439 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
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440 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
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441 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
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442 geometric_inv pascal_inv
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449 dmult spcumprod spmax
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450 iscommand spcumsum spmin
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451 israwcommand spdet spprod
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452 lchol spdiag spqr
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453 loadimage spfind spsum
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454 mark_as_command sphcat spsumsq
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455 mark_as_rawcommand spinv spvcat
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456 spatan2 spkron str2mat
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457 spchol splchol unmark_command
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464 autocor cellidx gammai krylovb values
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465 autocov dispatch glpkmex replot
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466 betai fstat is_global saveimage
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505 An experimental plotting system based on OpenGL and the FLTK
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522 removed from Octave. These function were incompatible with the
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523 high level graphics handle code.
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527 These functions are now available as separate packages from
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529 http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
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531 and can be reinstalled using the Octave package manager (see
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532 the pkg function).
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536 The following functions, which handled only sparse matrices have
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540 spatan2 spcumsum spkron spprod
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542 spchol2inv spdiag splu spsum
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543 spcholinv spfind spmax spsumsqk
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548 The interactive debugging features have been improved. Stopping
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549 on statements with dbstop should work correctly now. Stepping
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550 into and over functions, and stepping one statement at a time
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552 dbup and dbdown now works. The dbstack function is now available
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558 Traceback error messages are much more concise and easier to
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559 understand. They now display information about the function call
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565 Octave now includes OOP features and the user can create their own
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566 class objects and overloaded functions and operators. For
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569 versions of functions and operators take precedence over the
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570 generic versions of these functions.
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572 New functions related to OOP include
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578 ** Parsing of Command-style Functions.
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580 Octave now parses command-style functions without needing to first
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600 but an expression like this will now generate a parse error. In
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601 order to assign the value returned by a function to a variable,
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602 you must use the normal function call syntax:
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603
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604 x = load ("-text", "foo.dat");
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605
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606 ** Block comments.
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607
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608 Commented code can be between matching "#{" and "#}" or "%{" and
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609 "%}" markers, even if the commented code spans several line. This
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610 allows blocks code to be commented, without needing to comment
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611 each line. For example,
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612
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613 function [s, t] = func (x, y)
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614 s = 2 * x;
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615 #{
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616 s *= y;
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617 t = y + x;
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618 #}
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619 endfunction
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620
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621 the lines "s *= y;" and "t = y + x" will not be executed.
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622
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623 ** If any subfunction in a file ends with "end" or "endfunction", then
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624 they all must end that way. Previously, Octave accepted
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625
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626 function main ()
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627 ...
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628 # no endfunction here.
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629 function sub ()
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630 ...
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631 endfunction
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632
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633 but this is no longer allowed.
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634
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635 ** Special treatment in the parser of expressions like "a' * b".
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636
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637 In these cases the transpose is no longer explicitly formed and
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638 BLAS libraries are called with the transpose flagged,
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639 significantly improving performance for these kinds of
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640 operations.
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641
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642 ** Single Precision data type.
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643
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644 Octave now includes a single precision data type. Single
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645 precision variables can be created with the "single" command, or
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646 from functions like ones, eye, etc. For example,
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647
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648 single (1)
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649 ones (2, 2, "single")
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650 zeros (2, 2, "single")
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651 eye (2, 2, "single")
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652 Inf (2, 2, "single")
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653 NaN (2, 2, "single")
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654 NA (2, 2, "single")
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655
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656 all create single precision variables. For compatibility with
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657 Matlab, mixed double/single precision operators and functions
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658 return single precision types.
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659
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660 As a consequence of this addition to Octave the internal
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661 representation of the double precision NA value has changed, and
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662 so users that make use of data generated by Octave with R or
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663 visa-versa are warned that compatibility might not be assured.
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664
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665 ** Improved array indexing.
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666
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667 The underlying code used for indexing of arrays has been
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668 completely rewritten and indexing is now significantly faster.
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669
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670 ** Improved memory management.
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671
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672 Octave will now attempt to share data in some cases where previously
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673 a copy would be made, such as certain array slicing operations or
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674 conversions between cells, structs and cs-lists. This usually reduces
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675 both time and memory consumption.
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676 Also, Octave will now attempt to detect and optimize usage of a vector
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677 as a stack, when elements are being repeatedly inserted at/removed from
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678 the end of the vector.
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679
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680 ** Improved performance for reduction operations.
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681
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682 The performance of the sum, prod, sumsq, cumsum, cumprod, any, all,
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683 max and min functions has been significantly improved.
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684
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685 ** Sorting and searching.
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686
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687 The performance of sort has been improved, especially when sorting
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688 indices are requested. An efficient built-in issorted
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689 implementation was added. The sortrows function now uses a more
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690 efficient algorithm, especially in the homegeneous case. The lookup
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691 function is now a built-in function performing a binary search,
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692 optimized for long runs of close elements. Lookup also works with
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693 cell arrays of strings.
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694
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695 ** Range arithmetics
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696
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697 For some operations on ranges, Octave will attempt to keep the
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698 result as a range. These include negation, adding a scalar,
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699 subtracting a scalar, and multiplying by a scalar. Ranges with zero
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700 increment are allowed and can be constructed using the built-in
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701 function `ones'.
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702
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703 ** Various performance improvements.
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704
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705 Performance of a number of other built-in operations and functions
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706 was improved, including:
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707
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708 * logical operations
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709 * comparison operators
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710 * element-wise power
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711 * accumarray
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712 * cellfun
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713 * isnan
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714 * isinf
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715 * isfinite
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716 * nchoosek
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717 * repmat
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718 * strcmp
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719
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720 ** 64-bit integer arithmetic.
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721
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722 Arithmetic with 64-bit integers (int64 and uint64 types) is fully
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723 supported, with saturation semantics like the other integer types.
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724 Performance of most integer arithmetic operations has been
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725 improved by using integer arithmetic directly. Previously, Octave
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726 performed integer math with saturation semantics by converting the
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727 operands to double precision, performing the operation, and then
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728 converting the result back to an integer value, truncating if
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729 necessary.
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730
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731 ** Diagonal and permutation matrices.
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732
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733 The interpreter can now treat diagonal and permutation matrices as
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734 special objects that store only the non-zero elements, rather than
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735 general full matrices. Therefore, it is now possible to construct
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736 and use these matrices in linear algebra without suffering a
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737 performance penalty due to storing large numbers of zero elements.
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738
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739 ** Improvements to fsolve.
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740
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741 The fsolve function now accepts an option structure argument (see
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744 Additionally, fsolve is now able to solve overdetermined systems,
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745 complex-differentiable complex systems, systems with a sparse
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746 jacobian and can work in single precision if given single precision
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747 inputs. It can also be called recursively.
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748
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749 ** Improvements to the norm function.
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750
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751 The norm function is now able to compute row or column norms of a
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754 ** New functions for computing some eigenvalues or singular values.
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756 The eigs and svds functions have been included in Octave. These
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758 GPL-compatible license).
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759
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760 ** New QR and Cholesky factorization updating functions.
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761
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762 choldelete cholshift qrdelete qrshift
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763 cholinsert cholupdate qrinsert qrupdate
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764
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765 ** New quadrature functions.
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766
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767 dblquad quadgk quadv triplequad
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768
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769 ** New functions for reading and writing images.
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770
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771 The imwrite and imread functions have been included in Octave.
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772 These functions require the GraphicsMagick library. The new
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773 function imfinfo provides information about an image file (size,
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774 type, colors, etc.)
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775
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776 ** The input_event_hook function has been replaced by the pair of
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777 functions add_input_event_hook and remove_input_event_hook so that
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778 more than one hook function may be installed at a time.
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779
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780 ** Other miscellaneous new functions.
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781
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782 addtodate hypot reallog
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783 bicgstab idivide realpow
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784 cellslices info realsqrt
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785 cgs interp1q rectint
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786 command_line_path isdebugmode regexptranslate
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787 contrast isfloat restoredefaultpath
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788 convn isstrprop roundb
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789 cummin log1p rundemos
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790 cummax lsqnonneg runlength
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791 datetick matlabroot saveobj
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792 display namelengthmax spaugment
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793 expm1 nargoutchk strchr
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794 filemarker pathdef strvcat
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795 fstat perl subspace
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796 full prctile symvar
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797 fzero quantile treelayout
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798 genvarname re_read_readline_init_file validatestring
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799 histc
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800
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801 ** Changes to strcat.
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802
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803 The strcat function is now compatible with Matlab's strcat
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804 function, which removes trailing whitespace when concatenating
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805 character strings. For example
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806
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807 strcat ('foo ', 'bar')
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808 ==> 'foobar'
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809
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810 The new function cstrcat provides the previous behavior of
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811 Octave's strcat.
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812
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813 ** Improvements to the help functions.
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814
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815 The help system has been mostly re-implemented in .m files to make
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816 it easier to modify. Performance of the lookfor function has been
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817 greatly improved by caching the help text from all functions that
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818 are distributed with Octave. The pkg function has been modified
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819 to generate cache files for external packages when they are
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820 installed.
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821
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822 ** Deprecated functions.
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823
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824 The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.0 and will be
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825 removed from Octave 3.4 (or whatever version is the second major
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826 release after 3.0):
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827
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828 beta_cdf geometric_pdf pascal_pdf
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829 beta_inv geometric_rnd pascal_rnd
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830 beta_pdf hypergeometric_cdf poisson_cdf
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831 beta_rnd hypergeometric_inv poisson_inv
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832 binomial_cdf hypergeometric_pdf poisson_pdf
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833 binomial_inv hypergeometric_rnd poisson_rnd
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834 binomial_pdf intersection polyinteg
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835 binomial_rnd is_bool setstr
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836 chisquare_cdf is_complex struct_contains
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837 chisquare_inv is_list struct_elements
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838 chisquare_pdf is_matrix t_cdf
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839 chisquare_rnd is_scalar t_inv
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840 clearplot is_square t_pdf
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841 clg is_stream t_rnd
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842 com2str is_struct uniform_cdf
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843 exponential_cdf is_symmetric uniform_inv
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844 exponential_inv is_vector uniform_pdf
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845 exponential_pdf isstr uniform_rnd
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846 exponential_rnd lognormal_cdf weibcdf
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847 f_cdf lognormal_inv weibinv
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848 f_inv lognormal_pdf weibpdf
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849 f_pdf lognormal_rnd weibrnd
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850 f_rnd meshdom weibull_cdf
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851 gamma_cdf normal_cdf weibull_inv
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852 gamma_inv normal_inv weibull_pdf
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853 gamma_pdf normal_pdf weibull_rnd
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854 gamma_rnd normal_rnd wiener_rnd
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855 geometric_cdf pascal_cdf
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856 geometric_inv pascal_inv
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857
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858 The following functions are now deprecated in Octave 3.2 and will
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860 release after 3.2):
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861
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862 create_set spcholinv spmax
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863 dmult spcumprod spmin
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864 iscommand spcumsum spprod
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865 israwcommand spdet spqr
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866 lchol spdiag spsum
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867 loadimage spfind spsumsq
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868 mark_as_command spinv str2mat
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869 mark_as_rawcommand spkron unmark_command
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870 spatan2 splchol unmark_rawcommand
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871 spchol split
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872 spchol2inv splu
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873
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874 See NEWS.3 for old news.