Re: class() and MATLAB compatibility

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-May-2006, Paul Koufalas wrote:

| G'day Paul,
| 
| The upstream author, Christian Merkwirth, of the MATLAB package I'm
| interested in, kindly wrote to me and is re-thinking porting his package
| to Octave.
| 
| He might be interested in adding the missing class() capability / Matlab
| compatibility to Octave to do it; and he's a far better C++ programmer
| than I am, ;-)

Adding these features involves changes to core parts of Octave.  It
won't be trivial, and it will probably require someone with a good
knowledge of the internals (or someone willing to learn a lot about
the way Octave works).  If you or anyone else wants to work on this
project, it would be best to discuss the implementation on the
maintainers mailing list and work with us to make the changes
incrementally rather than by trying to implement it all independently
and then dump a large invasive patch on us (that would likely be
rejected).

Thanks,

jwe