subfunction and 'private' functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Oct-1998, Ferdinand Schinagl <address@hidden> wrote:

| is octave going to support matlabs
| subfunction and/or 'private'-directory
| feature for enabling non-global scopes
| of declarations?

Probably not any time soon, unless someone contributes a clean
implmentation for the 2.1.x sources.

| BTW: I'd a look into 2.1.7 and wonder
| (it's already 5 months old) if there
| is a more recent 'bleeding-edge' version
| available?

There should be soon.  I certainly didn't plan to go this long between
2.1.x releases, but various factors conspired against me over the last
few months.

jwe