Is this true? Parameter passing by name is hugely useful -- they'd have to re-write a whole bunch of libraries to make it work, and I'd have a lot of stuff that would be instantly obsolete.
On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 11:46 -0300, Adelson Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > > Let's take fft as an example. > > In scilab 5 one could call fft specifying parameters like dim and > incr by name, > > fft(A,-1,dim=100,incr=1) > > Codes that used to work in scilab 5 now gives wrong results (no error > messages!) in scilab 6 because the new release ignores named > parameters. To get expected results with scilab 6, one should recast > the command above as, > > fft(A,-1,100,1) > > otherwise scilab 6 reads > > fft(A,-1) > > instead! > > What for ignoring parameter names? Also, I have some scilab codes > where functions do accept names and take different actions > accordingly. Should I > change all these codes to use scilab 6? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@lists.scilab.org > http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users