Re: Synonym

[John W. Eaton]

On 4/8/20 7:35 AM, Ian McCallion wrote:
> What is the right syntax for providing a function which does nothing 
> except call another function with the same parameters and returns the 
> same values back.
>
> The function below passes the parameters through, but getting returned 
> values back does not work. I've tried various incantations without success
>
>     function [varargout] = short(varargin)
>         varargout = verylongame(varargin){:})
>      endfunction

Try

  function varargout = short (varargin)
    varargout = cell (nargout, 1);
    [varargout{:}] = verylongname (varargin{:});
  endfunction

Then verylongname will see the same value for nargout that short does 
when it is called.  There are some forwarding functions like this in 
Octave.  For example, bar.m and barh.m both forward to an internal 
function private/__bar__.m.

jwe