Re: stubs for missing functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Mar-2010, S ren Hauberg wrote:

|      3. It seems like you forgot to deal with keywords in your list of
|         potential stubs. At least the list includes stuff like 'end',
|         'for', 'varargin', etc. In Octave, you can get the complete list
|         of keywords, using the '__keywords__' function.

OK, I removed keywords from the list.

| Also
| 
| > +function unimplemented (fcn)
| > +
| > +  txt = __makeinfo__ (sprintf ("The %s function is not yet implemented in 
Octave.  Please read @url{http://www.octave.org/missing.html} to find out how 
you can help to contribute a working version of this function.", fcn));
| > +
| > +  while (txt(end) == "\n")
| > +    txt(end) = "";
| > +  endwhile
| 
| Can't this while-loop be replaced by a call to a 'strip' function. Ohh,
| I see we don't have functions for stripping spaces from text. In 'pkg.m'
| we have some functions for doing stuff like this. Perhaps they should be
| made generally available?

I guess

  regexprep (txt, "\n*$", "")

will also work?

jwe