Re: Operator overloading

[David Bateman]

Hi, 

According to Suvendra Nath Dutta <address@hidden> (on 05/14/03):
> Is there some way to overload operators in Octave. Ideally I'd like to 
> define my own objects (like structs) and overload the *, + and other 
> operators.

This is pretty much what I recently did for a Galois Field GF(2^M) class
in octave-forge (see octave-forge/main/comm). For the operator overloading
you'll have to create a new type with its own replacement operators. If
you want to see an example of how to do this you code look at my Galois
field code, or the sparse matrix code in octave-forge. However, in
octave-forge/extra/linear-algerbra there is a smaller example with the
factorization of triangular matrices that will probably be an easier starting
point :-)

As for overloading functions you should look at the dispatch function 
(octave-forge/main/miscallaneous), that I also extensively used in 
the Galois field code. If you use the PKG_ADD command you can even have
these function overloads automatically included at startup..

Cheers
David

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