Re: Should 4.1 keep supporting pre-4.0 syntax?

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > > > Gnuplot version cycle is at about 5 years.
> > >
> > > Where did you pick up that number?
> >
> > Because that did happen. Releasing 3.7 has taken 5 years, and the same for
> > 4.0 (1999 -- 2004).
>
> That was pure coincidence.

One popular Czech movies says: "oops, it happens once per 10 years..." ....
"oops, it happens twice per 10 years..." ...


> > Them is for example me, or Daniel -- we managed to get imagegp.m to work
> > fine with Octave. Not having the compatibility would be a stop-point for
> > using both nice apps.
>
> No it wouldn't.  It would *only* mean that imagegp.m has to use a gnuplot
> 4.0 executable for as long as nobody gets round to teaching it to use
> 'unset' instead of 'set no...'.  Which I honestly can't believe to be
> all that complicated.

Octave has built-in command gset, e.g.
	gset log y
Thus you can do comfortably
	gset nolog

without any need for
	gunset log

You cannot define "function/command" gunset to be called
	gunset log
=> you can call it as function
	gunset('log')

It looks like "gset noXXX" => "graw('unset XXXX')" backwards (script...)
compatibility would have to be dereferred to Octave -- that's something I
really don't like.

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