[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59380] Function cast doesn't imply it returns a value

[Rik]

Update of bug #59380 (project octave):

                 Release:                  6.0.92 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #3:

This is probably a general problem with the documentation.  Taking a look at
sind.m I see


-- sind (X)
     Compute the sine for each element of X in degrees.


By Octave conventions, it is understood that X is not changed and that sind
returns a value.  It would be a big shift, but it would be clearer to show


-- Y = sind (X)
     Compute the sine for each element of X in degrees.


where the return value is explicitly shown in the documentation.

If the Octave project wants to take this step it will be a large one.  For
that reason, I'm changing the Release from 6.0.92 to dev.  This can't be fixed
with the limited amount of time before the 6.1 release.

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