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Packages shadowing built-ins
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Matthias W. Klein |
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Packages shadowing built-ins |
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Wed, 29 May 2019 23:20:46 +0200 |
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Dear octave maintainers,
what is the general attitude towards octave packages *shadowing*
built-in core functions?
An advantage is the un-definition upon package unloading.
A disadvantage is the necessary copy of the built-in help text to the
shadowing function definition.
The background of my question is the OCL package using its own octave
C++ data types (those inheriting octave_base_value, with the types
appended to the 'typeinfo' list; *not* interpreter classes which would
allow method overloading!) and octave version >= 4.4, where shadowing
seems an option (if not the only one).
Best regards,
Matt
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