Re: More everything into the octave namespace

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/16/2016 11:11 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:

> Grepping for "-" would show the classes that disappeared.
>
> The problem with this approach is that:
>
>   1 - it includes classes that are only used internally.
>   2 - does not show the enclosing class for nested classes (for example,
>     the new string class, is actually nested inside text_renderer which
>     itself is a new class)

Or classes that are already inside a namespace?

> I think at this point they have be to be looked at manually.

Right, but that's a good start.

> Also, we need to decide in which namespace are putting each one of them.
> I think you mentioned on IRC that we don't want to have too many namespace
> and I agree.  So what namespaces will we have under octave? math, parser,
> gui, graphics, interpreter?

So far, we have these namespaces inside the main octave namespace:

  build_env
  crypto
  math
  string
  sys

If we need more later we can add them.  But we should try to keep the 
list small.

There are also a few more in the GUI and JIT compiler that I don't think 
are part of the octave namespace.  Those should not cause trouble.  We 
don't install header files from the GUI directory (yet) and the JIT 
compiler doesn't really work so can't possibly have many (any?) users.

jwe