Re: classdef functionality

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2012/2/24 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On 24-Feb-2012, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | On 24 February 2012 08:44, deraltefritz <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > So I'll ask this once more: will there be classdef support implemented
> | > sometime (soon) in the future?
> |
> | This is the closest we've got:
> |
> |     
> http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=GSoC_Project_Ideas#Implement_classdef_classes
> |
> | If you want to help, you can mentor or find a student who is willing
> | and able to do this.
> |
> | Assuming Octave gets accepted as a mentoring organisation, of course...
>
> I would also be interested in doing this work if someone wanted to
> hire me to do it.  That's how the "legacy" @CLASS classes were added
> to Octave.  My experience doing that work tells me that this job will
> require significant time and expertise.  Probably more than can be
> handled by a GSoC student unless they are already quite familiar with
> Octave internals and Matlab's classdef classes.

Could you reword that task into a more modest goal, then? Perhaps only
implement some classdef functionality? I wrote it initially, but I
didn't think it was such a difficult task.

Or is this completely unsuitable for a GSoC project?

- Jordi G. H.