[OctDev] Re: oct files for BFGS, numeric derivatives

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

On Mar 9, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Michael Creel wrote:

> It seems that camelcase filenames are not common in the octave world,  
> so I'm a
> bit uncomfortable with the names I'm using. I would use bfgs, newton,
> gradient and hessian as file names, but there are already files in
> octave-forge with these or very similar names. Any suggestions?

Yes --- only have one copy of the functions.   How do you
expect the user to decide between Hessian and hessian?
Rather than octave-forge being a collection of all the code
ever written for octave, I would rather have it as the best
we know of for octave.

And the sooner we make API changes the better, since we
are experiencing exponential growth:

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php? 
report=months&group_id=2888

Paul Kienzle
pki...@us...