Re: open socket with listen() and still have command line available?

[Paul Kienzle]

On May 27, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:

> > Hmm... that still leaves the send/recv function in parallel which 
> > will conflict with the posix socket interface.
>
> Is there no way to implement namespaces?
>
> Something like this needs to be done sometime.
>
> pkg load socket
> send(blah)
> pkg load socket as skt
> skt.send(blah)

We could get this sort of functionality with a new octave type 
'module'.  This would presumably be based on the octave symbol table 
class, with some overloads for function lookup.  The constructor would 
take the module path as its parameter.  The main work would be down by 
overloading subsref to access the module.name references.

The syntax would look something like:

  skt = module('socket')
  skt.send(blah)

The vtk bindings in octave already do something similar IIRC.

All of the code is already in Octave to handle this, but it will almost 
certainly need some refactoring in order to share rather than copy it.

        - Paul