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NEWS.8.md: Add note about breaking change (strings)
author Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com>
date Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:53:02 -0500
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104 - `ode45`, `ode23`, and `ode23s` have improved results for options `Events`, 104 - `ode45`, `ode23`, and `ode23s` have improved results for options `Events`,
105 `OutputFcn`, and `Refine`, along with corrected orientation of struct 105 `OutputFcn`, and `Refine`, along with corrected orientation of struct
106 outputs. 106 outputs.
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108 - *Early notice of future breaking changes*: Due to many user requests that
109 Octave should have a Matlab-compatible string class, there is work under way
110 to implement a string class, which will differ from a vector of characters.
111 Currently in Octave, both 'foo' and "foo" are largely interchangeable,
112 barring certain escape sequence interpretations that are present for one but
113 not another. In future, that is likely to change as a consequence of
114 implementing Matlab-style strings. This is required for other
115 Matlab-compatibility activities as well.
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117 *What this means for user code*: If you want to treat "foo" as a character
118 vector as opposed to a string object, *and* if you intend to use a future
119 version of Octave with string classes, then rewrite "foo" as 'foo'. If you
120 need to retain the character vector behavior for "foo", you can continue to
121 use Octave 8 with long-term support.
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108 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8 123 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 8
109 124
110 * `clearAllMemoizedCaches` 125 * `clearAllMemoizedCaches`
111 * `matlab.lang.MemoizedFunction` 126 * `matlab.lang.MemoizedFunction`
112 * `memoize` 127 * `memoize`