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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {} {@var{val} =} disable_range ()
## @deftypefnx {} {@var{old_val} =} disable_range (@var{new_val})
## @deftypefnx {} {} disable_range (@var{new_val}, "local")
## Query or set whether storing ranges in a special space-efficient format is
## disabled.
##
## The default value is false.  If this option is set to true, Octave will
## store ranges as full matrices.
##
## When called from inside a function with the @qcode{"local"} option, the
## setting is changed locally for the function and any subroutines it calls.
## The original setting is restored when exiting the function.
## @seealso{disable_diagonal_matrix, disable_permutation_matrix}
## @end deftypefn

## FIXME: DEPRECATED: Remove in version 9.

function retval = disable_range (varargin)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "disable_range is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use optimize_range instead\n");
  endif

  if (nargin == 0)
    retval = ! optimize_range ();
  elseif (nargout == 0)
    optimize_range (! varargin{1}, varargin{2:end});
  else
    retval = ! optimize_range (! varargin{1}, varargin{2:end});
  endif

endfunction