On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Stickel<jjstic...@vcn.com> wrote:
> I just checked in a small bug fix to the nelder_mead_min function
> regarding some trouble with parsing the list or cell arguments. Someone
> more familiar with the function might want to check that I didn't
> break anything. I did check that the test script test_nelder_mead_min_1
> passes all tests.
>
> Many of the minimization functions make use of lists in their argument
> passing. This results in the warning
>
> warning: list objects are deprecated; use cell arrays instead
>
> It would be helpful if the authors of these functions could clean the
> functions up to use exclusively cell arrays.
>
> One last note: I noticed that someone ('highegg') recently changed the
> names of fminunc and fzero to fminunc_compat and fzero_compat. Why the
> name change? Wouldn't Matlab compatibility be better achieved by using
> exactly the same name used in Matlab? I use fminunc in some of work,
> including the data smoothing functions I contributed to the data
> smoothing package.
>
the change is due to the fact that fminunc and fzero are now in core
Octave, so to avoid a name clash.
I think Octave's fzero is more Matlab compatible than the one in
OctaveForge, but otherwise roughly equivalent in functionality, so
maybe fzero_compat can be dropped. fminunc_compat (former fminunc) is
a mere wrapper to minimize.
cheers
--
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
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