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

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 07.11.2013, at 13:45, "c." <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Is it also possible to create @sym/sym.oct and tell Octave by autoload that it 
finds @sym/factorial inside @sym/sym.oct? I would like to create a single 
oct-file which contains all methods for the sym class.

Lukas