Mercurial > octave
changeset 31255:43068d904d9d
doc: remove very old TODO file
doc/interpreter/TODO was a very old file from the 1990s.
Deleting per https://octave.discourse.group/t/3328
author | Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:58:14 -0400 |
parents | 5d6b058a22dc |
children | fa4bb329a51a |
files | doc/interpreter/TODO |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/interpreter/TODO Tue Oct 04 07:34:47 2022 -0700 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -* Improve the index. - -* Describe the grammar (grammar.texi). - -* More examples. - -* Some things from NEWS that might not be documented yet: - - * Expressions of the form - - A(i,j) = x - - where X is a scalar and the indices i and j define a matrix of - elements now work as you would expect rather than giving an error. - I am told that this is how Matlab 5.0 will behave when it is - released. - (assignment) - - * Octave's parser now does some simple constant folding. This means - that expressions like 3*i are now evaluated only once, when a - function is compiled, and the right hand side of expressions like - a = [1,2;3,4] are treated as true matrix constants rather than - lists of elements which must be evaluated each time they are - needed. - (???) - - * Octave now attempts to continue after floating point exceptions - or out-of-memory errors. - (???) - - * If Octave crashes, it now attempts to save all user-defined - variables in a file named 'octave-core' in the current directory - before exiting. - (???) - - * The info reader is now a separate binary that runs as a - subprocess. You still need the info reader distributed with - Octave though, because there are some new command-line arguments - that are not yet available in the public release of Info. - (install) - - * If it is present, Octave will now use an 'ls-R' database file to - speed up recursive path searching. Octave looks for a file called - ls-R in the directory specified by the environment variable - OCTAVE_DB_DIR. If that is not set but the environment variable - OCTAVE_HOME is set, Octave looks in $OCTAVE_HOME/lib/octave. - Otherwise, Octave looks in the directory $datadir/octave (normally - /usr/local/lib/octave). - (install)