Re: namespace support?

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Feb-2010, Alexander Barth wrote:

| On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Michael Goffioul
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:00 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| >> Or as a newfangled handle class (i.e., one of those object things
| >> defined with classpath, which Octave does not yet have, and probably
| >> will not have for quite some time unless someone comes along and works
| >> on it)?  But then again, don't those things appear to be somehow
| >> related to Java or even thinly disguised Java objects?
| >
| > That's what I meant. It looks like a Java class containing
| > static methods.
| >
| > Michael.
| >
| 
| I made a test in matlab with the option -nojvm and I can still access
| the netcdf functions. It seems that the namespace functionality is not
| only for java objects.
| 
| The matlab's netcdf interface is very close to the C netcdf library
| (whereas the netcdf java inferface is at a higher level). I think it
| would be preferable to implement the wrapper function for octave
| directly in C++ (without java).
| 
| The syntax "netcdf.function_call" could be simulated by creating a
| netcdf object with a subsref dispatching to the appropriate function
| call. However the netcdf namespace cannot be imported and this is not
| a very elegant solution.
| 
| Any better solution?

Implement classdef-style classes in Octave.

jwe