Re: How to overload factorial (m-file) for a class defined in an oct-file?

[c.]

On 7 Nov 2013, at 13:39, Lukas Reichlin <address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Octave Community
> 
> I've created a class "sym" in an oct-file. Now I want to overload Octave's 
> factorial function (an m-file) for this class in C++. How can I do this?
> 
> DEFUN_DLD (factorial, args, nargout, "factorial help")
> alone doesn't help because now all factorial calls are handled by the 
> oct-file, instead of just the arguments of class "sym". I need the C++ 
> equivalent of @sym/factorial.m.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints,
> Lukas

If I understand corrently your question, I think you just need to place your 
oct file in the @sym directory:

  @sym/factorial.oct

HTH,
c.