classdef support for octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Sep-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| (OK, not many reactions so far. I guess it's low priority...)
| 
| To answer myself, I think that the implementation should be
| more tightly coupled to the symbol table code of octave. I'll
| try to redesign the code that way (but it'll take some time as
| it requires jumping into the intrinsics of symtab.[h|cc]). At first
| sight, my first idea is to add a cls_info object to store class
| specific informations, managing dispatching and inheritance
| as well as class reloading.

How does dispatch work for the classdef classes?  Where does it fit
in with the current order for symbol lookups?

jwe