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Re: overloading rules
From: |
Lukas Reichlin |
Subject: |
Re: overloading rules |
Date: |
Tue, 8 May 2012 22:09:17 +0200 |
On 08.05.2012, at 21:03, CdeMills wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the dataframe package, I wrote specific functions which shadows the core
> functions, like plus, minus, ... Now I would like to be able to export
> directly a dataframe into something that programs like Exell could read. One
> of the candidate would be dlmwrite, which is defined in a .m file. Is it
> possible to shadow dlmwrite in such a way that if the matrix argument is a
> dataframe, a specific, dataframe-aware version is called in place of the
> original one ?
>
> Regards
>
> Pascal
Hi Pascal,
If you add @dataframe/dlmwrite.m, it will be used by Octave automatically if
you call the function dlmwrite() with one or more arguments of type dataframe.
If none of the arguments are dataframes, the built-in dlmwrite will be used.
Hope this helps,
Lukas