[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55265] doc: user manual "Obsolete Functions" are doubly obsolete now

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #55265 (project octave):

I have gone through all functions listed in the table.

Almost all of the replacement functions listed that are no longer in Octave
are now part of the statistics package. These can be documented as such easily
without deleting any old entries.

There are two ancient entries from Octave 3.4.0 whose replacements have also
been removed from Octave years ago:

* 'is_list' says it was replaced by 'islist', both functions were completely
removed in Octave 3.4.0
* 'is_stream' says it was replaced by 'isstream', but 'isstream' was
completely deleted in Octave 3.0.0 even while the 'is_stream' deprecation
wrapper was kept until Octave 3.4.0

These entries aren't very helpful to current Octave users.

I think it's not worth keeping any entries in this table older than 3.8.0 for
the upcoming Octave 5 release. But at the same time this table hasn't been
updated for more recent releases.

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