Re: refactoring function handle implementation for version 6

[John W. Eaton]

On 6/11/20 6:37 PM, Rik wrote:

> I'd vote yes for having vectorize and genvarname produce warnings.
>
> I'm ambivalent about inline().  I just tried "f = inline ('x + 1')" with
> Matlab 2020a and it succeeds with no warning.  On the other hand, inline()
> is really, really old and it is trivial to update code to use function
> handles instead.  And, if people really have old legacy code that they
> don't want to re-write they can slap
>
> warning ("off", "Octave:legacy-function")
>
> in their .octaverc and never hear another complaint.

I pushed the following changeset to add warnings for vectorize, 
genvarname, and the inline constructor:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ef8cf8dda0ba

jwe