Re: varargin daisy-chaining

[David Bateman]

Pascal Dupuis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to wrap a function call in another one, adding some argument
> through the varargin mechanism. I wrote this code:
>
> function resu = outer(varargin)
>
>   %# add supplemental terms in the varargin list       
>   varargin = {"some_name", some_val, varagin{:}}
>
>   %# expand once again varargin to have a list, and not a single cell
>   resu = inner(varagin{:})
> endfunction
>
> It does work, but is it the right way to add supplemental terms to the
> varargin list ? Will this work with future releases of octave ?
>
> TIA
>   
Its one way of doing it and it should always works. An alternative is just

function resu = outer(varargin)
  resu = inner("some_name", some_val, varagin{:})
endfunction

which should probably be faster..

D.

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