classdef support for octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Sep-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:31 AM, David Bateman
| <David.Bateman at motorola.com> wrote:
| > No comments not because of lack of interest but because my minds on other
| > things.. I think it would be great to have classdef support for 3.2 if its
| > relatively easy to implement as you imply.
| 
| I didn't imply that :-)

I'm also busy this week with other projects.

| A complete implementation requires work on the internal data representation
| and MOP,

MOP?

| work on the parser for the syntactic sugar (classdef parsing,
| ?-syntax for class access, @-syntax for overloaded method call in the
| parent classes...), work on the tree evaluator (for package scope handling).

I could probably help with this if you can explain the syntax, or
point to a more or less complete description of it.

| So 3.2 is not a realistic target.

I agree.  I think this should not be added until after 3.2.

jwe