Re: namespace support?

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2010, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Barth
| <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Hi all,
| >
| > Does octave support namespaces (or is it planned), in order to
| > implement matlab's netcdf interface ?
| > (http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/netcdf.html)
| >
| > Functions can either be called using the namespace prefix:
| >
| > netcdf.inqLibVers
| >
| > or by
| >
| > import netcdf.*
| > inqLibVers
| 
| Might it be possible that Matlab implements netcdf support through
| Java? This looks like typical Java/Matlab integration.

Or as a newfangled handle class (i.e., one of those object things
defined with classpath, which Octave does not yet have, and probably
will not have for quite some time unless someone comes along and works
on it)?  But then again, don't those things appear to be somehow
related to Java or even thinly disguised Java objects?

jwe