Re: movfun

[Rik]

On 12/11/2018 06:41 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>> I think movfun.m should be transferred in to Mercurial in to 
>> scripts/statistics/private as it is a helper function for the visible 
>> functions above.
>>
>> --Rik
>>
> Hi Rik,
> Thanks for the list, I can write the wrappers.
>
> I strongly disagree about movfun (and movslice) as private functions.
> For me the the actually valuable contributions to octave are movfuin
> and movslice. Also those are the functions I use in my work (the ones
> form matlab are just simple calls to movfun).
> If the community decision  is to make movfun private, then I will not
> make anymore the effort to comply with the sometimes tedious octave
> coding style and keep development outside octave. That is, the burden
> of maintenance will 100% to the ones who decided to make it private,
> and we will have diverging movfun in the environment.

I assumed it should be private because it was only being used by the movXXX
functions.

What is an example use case where some other functions would want to call
movfun or movslice?

--Rik