[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55742] fminsearch does not pass extra arguments to objective function, undocumented old Matlab behavior

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Update of bug #55742 (group octave):

                  Status:               Duplicate => Ready For Test         
             Open/Closed:                  Closed => Open                   
         Planned Release:                    None => 10.1.0 (current default)

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Follow-up Comment #7:

appending this here for tracking since it's the report where we first removed
the documentation.

after discussion on discourse (see
https://octave.discourse.group/t/fminsearch-extra-parameters-or-not-we-actually-do-support-it/)
it was decided to complete the removal of this functionality from fminsearch,
as it was at least somewhat functional but undocumented from v5.1 to v9.1.

a patch pushed to stable (for v9.2) here and merged to default adds
documentation changes noting that the feature will be removed in v10 and
adding the suggested anonymous function alternative to the manual.
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/0d2a6a831574

follow on patch to default for v10 removes the parameter passing functionality
such that an error is issued and updates docs/news accordingly
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3f3d7dde7f61

reopening and marking this as ready for test for now.



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