Re: Octave classes

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Massimo Manghi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I wrote a message to this list days ago which admittedly wasn't very well
> concocted and it went unanswered. I try with a more direct and explicit
> question.
>
> Is there somewhere some sort of implementation of a foundation class library
> for Octave? I'm trying to convert my scripts to classes but it seems methods
> like get, set, display need to be reimplemented every time, even though they
> do the same function for most of my classes. In other words: is there some
> class from which one could derive its own classes having those basic methods
> already available with a default functionality?
>
>  thanks
>
>  -- Massimo
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afaik, there is no inheritance in Octave classes. Only composition
(you can do a hack by having a dummy class with the basic methods and
all new classes call those by default... horrible if you ask me).

You can have a few .m that you copy to all your new classes if they
all do exactly the same.

I think, jwe will release classdef for octave in the near future. then
you will have all the object thingy stuff.


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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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