Re: Implementing missing toolbox/package functions

[Svante Signell]

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 16:48 -0400, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Svante Signell wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am writing some code for communications applications for research
> > purposes and found that e.g. root-raised-cosine functions (rcosine,
> > rcosfir, rcosiir, etc) are missing from the octave-communications
> > package. Are there code rules and template code available somewhere, in
> > case I want to contribute by writing some of the missing functions (to
> > start with as .m functions).
> > 
> > BTW: I found a list of missing package functions at:
> > http://www.denney.ws/octave/3.0.1/Communications.html
> > Is there an updated list somewhere?
> > 
> > Svante
> 
> Octave's packages are available from SourceForge. The link to the 
> communications package is below
> 
>       http://octave.sourceforge.net/communications/index.html

Thanks for the link. I will contact the package author. My question was
also about the different sections of a function:

## Copyright and license stuff
...
## -*- texinfo -*-
help stuff in texinfo!?

# release history

function y = f(x);
argument checking
...
# test stuff
%!error f ()
%! assert ()

etc.

Are there any general guidelines written down? Or is it the study of
source code that counts?