Re: WaveLab error & fix!

[pkienzle]

On 18 Aug 2003 at 10:27, Laurent Jacques wrote:

> It seems that octave uses its own reverse function instead of the Wavelab 
> ones.

The problem is that m-files in the path do not override built-in
functions (or oct-files for that matter).  In this particular case
you could rename Wavelab's reverse to something like Wavelab_reverse, 
and use dispatch from octave-forge to call Wavelab_reverse instead of 
reverse when it receives a matrix.  Something like:

        dispatch("reverse","Wavelab_reverse","matrix");

A better solution might be to extend the built-in reverse so that
it handles the common types, and send John a patch.

Long term as octave grows, it would be nice if there were a way to 
limit functions to a private name space of a package, ignoring any 
definitions available elsewhere.

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden



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