diff NEWS @ 18131:c7b68a11074b

maint: Periodic merge of gui-release to default.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:24:02 -0500
parents 2217bc116aa9 e473c4853afc
children fcd87f68af4f
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--- a/NEWS	Sat Dec 07 17:51:53 2013 -0500
+++ b/NEWS	Thu Dec 12 00:24:02 2013 -0500
@@ -45,6 +45,26 @@
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.0:
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+ ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "backtrace" warning option is now
+    enabled by default.
+
+ ** The preference
+
+      do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
+
+    is now enabled by default.
+
+ ** The preference
+
+      allow_noninteger_range_as_index
+
+    is now enabled by default and the warning ID
+
+      Octave:noninteger-range-as-index
+
+    is now set to "on" by default instead of "error" by default and "on"
+    for --traditional.
+
  ** Other new functions added in 4.0.0:
 
       validateattributes
@@ -64,7 +84,8 @@
     be removed from Octave 4.4 (or whatever version is the second major
     release after 4.0):
 
-    *none*
+      allow_noninteger_range_as_index
+      do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
 
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