Re: function help

[Martin Helm]

Am 23.02.2012 21:27, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
> That's an ugly an unnecessary Matlab-inspired hack.
No idea, I do not use Matlab. It is inspired by lisps local functions
returned by a dispatch from a closure and it is for sure no hack.

> In Octave, unlike in Matlab, you can define functions in the
> interpreter and in script files.
>
> So you can do something like writing this in func_init.m:
>
>     1;
>     function out = foo(x)
>        ## ...
>     endfunction
>
>     function out = bar(x)
>        ## ...
>     endfunction
>
> And whenever you write "func_init" both foo and bar functions will be
> defined in scope.
I consider that a hack because you execute a script instead of using a
dispatch, though I sometimes use it myself.
> Subfunctions are still hidden like in Matlab, but at least you don't
> need to be doing uglier function handle hacks to just get a few
> functions into scope.
>