On 1 March 2012 05:01, marco atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > If my cygwin users want to use NaN they need to install the > "octave-forge" bundle package plus type (or add in their script) > > "pkg load nan" > > and there is a long list of warning..... > > so they should not be surprised of any consequence
I agree with marco here. This is true not only to windows users but also to all other OS. If the warnings are shown to the users, he should be considered warned. The only problem I could see is users who install all packages thinking that "the more the better" and use "pkg load all" without giving it much thought. Still, they are receiving warnings so no problem again. If I understood correctly, the whole point of the NaN package is to skip NaN values for statistics operations and.... well, it seems that is doing that correctly so I don't see any problem with it. I think everyone already understood that functions that have such behavior already exist with a more specific name but that's not the point of the package, it's to actually shadow the core functions and implement a different behaviour. And this is already well advertised. About whether octave should implement NA and/or NaN skipping behavior on their core functions, that discussion belongs to the octave core mailing. Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
