diff NEWS @ 18538:fcd87f68af4f

Deprecate nfields and replace with numfields. * NEWS: Announce deprecation of nfields and addition of new function numfields. * container.txi: Add numfields to the manual. * oct-map.cc (octave_map::cat): Change %!tests to use numfields. * ov-struct.cc (Fnumfields): Function renamed from nfields. * scripts/deprecated/nfields.m: Add m-file which warns about nfields deprecation. * scripts/deprecated/module.mk: Add nfields.m to build system. * fieldnames.m: Change seealso link to point to numfields. * __isequal__.m: Use numfields to simplify code. * imwrite.m: Replace 'isempty (fieldnames (fmt))' with 'numfields (fmt) > 0' for clarity. * imageIO.m: Replace 'isempty (fieldnames (fmt))' with 'numfields (fmt) > 0' for clarity. * importdata.m: Use numfields to simplify code. * assert.m: Use numfields to simplify code.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:56:11 -0800
parents c7b68a11074b
children cd83730e5e38
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--- a/NEWS	Sat Mar 01 22:11:32 2014 -0800
+++ b/NEWS	Sun Mar 02 12:56:11 2014 -0800
@@ -4,9 +4,17 @@
  ** Other new functions added in 4.2:
 
       dir_in_loadpath
+      numfields
 
  ** Deprecated functions.
 
+    The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.2 and will
+    be removed from Octave 4.6 (or whatever version is the second major
+    release after 4.2):
+
+      find_dir_in_path
+      nfields
+
     The following functions were deprecated in Octave 3.8 and have been
     removed from Octave 4.2.
 
@@ -19,14 +27,6 @@
       java_get                read_readline_init_file   
       java_invoke             saving_history            
 
-
-    The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 4.2 and will
-    be removed from Octave 4.6 (or whatever version is the second major
-    release after 4.2):
-
-      find_dir_in_path
-
-
     The following keywords were deprecated in Octave 3.8 and have been
     removed from Octave 4.2