Re: Using functions from octave_base_value on class defined in .m files ?

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Nov-2010, CdeMills wrote:

| I implemented all those small mapping functions the way you explained. Now
| I'm blocked by expressions like [a b] or [a; b] : I overloaded  horzcat and
| vertcat but it seems not effective : which function implements the []
| (catting) operator ?

In the current development sources, Octave looks for horzcat and
vertcat when processing the [ .. ] operator.  I don't think this was
done until after 3.2 was released.

| For the other question: I have functions defined under @dataframe/ : there
| are class functions, and supposed to overload basic Octave functions. Now
| let say I want function my_func, implemented in my_func.m, to operate on
| dataframes: where should I put the function body such that is is found in
| the octave load path ?

You should be able to have multiple @dataframe directories in your
load path and Octave will find the methods in each.

jwe