Re: same function name in two files

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 15, 2014, at 8:58 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2014, at 8:38 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > IMHO, this is really error prone way of doing it. Since every time you 
> > write code, you have to look back, keep track of the function octave is 
> > going to pick up. I am surprised octave does not have better namespace 
> > capabilities.
> >
> > raju
> 
> Historically, the m-file language was not object oriented. However, classdef 
> support is being added to Octave and will allow methods associated with 
> different objects to be called for each instance of an object.
> 
>         http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/classdef.html
> 
> 
> Ah, sweet!  I think the methods in the classdef is what I am after. I am 
> currently using octave 3.8.1 on Debian Jessie. Does this support classdef? 
> 
> octave:1> help classdef
> error: help: 'classdef' not found
> octave:1> version
> ans = 3.8.1
> 
> If not, is it available in a development branch or something? I don't mind 
> compiling from source. I have not done this in a long time as Debian octave 
> packages are pretty good and I never felt the need to compile from sources.
> 
> raju

The work on classdef is under way. A lot is completed in the default branch.

        http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html

There are several Debian users among the developers.  If you would like to help 
out, first setup your mercurial archive and then send an email to the 
developers mail-list.

Ben