Re: BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY and BACKWARDS_COMPATIBLE

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 15 December 2006 01:46 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> I've just noticed many error messages from gnuplot running under
> Octave ... that's because "set nopolar", "set notics" etc does no
> longer work even though the backwards compatibility is enabled by
> default...
>
> The bug: there is a mix of both keywords BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY and
> BACKWARDS_COMPATIBLE in the source code but it should be the same.
>
> Someone knows why/when/where this change happened?
> I guess it should be enough to fix the constant name in configure.in.

Yes, sorry. My fault.  Although the whole idea was to uncover places
that the old syntax was still being used, and I guess it succeeded
at doing so.  I've fixed the spelling in configure.in

How much of the old syntax does Octave still use?  Maybe we could
continue to allow "set no<whatever>" even after disabling some of
the more problematic items like bare integers (no keyword) for
line types and point types.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA