A good OOP class to use for example in the manual?

David Bateman adb014 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 14:27:57 CDT 2008


Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:09 PM, David Bateman <dbateman at dbateman.org> wrote:
>> I still have a couple of issues with the OOP code in Octave, and am looking
>> at
>>
>> * Ability to load/save classes, including saveobj and loadobj methods
>> * get dbstop to work in class methods
>>
>> but apart from that I'm pretty much ready put some words to paper (or rather
>> bits to a file) for the OOP documentation for the 3.2 release. I wrote a
>> fairly complete Galois field GF(2^M) class just to try and find out how all
>> of this stuff was put together. However, this class seems a bit complex as
>> the stuff about primitive polynomials of the field are added details that
>> most users really don't need to know. Does anyone have an idea of a good
>> example class that might be used that
>>
>> 1) Demonstrates all details of the OOP code
>> 2) Is relatively simple
>> 3) Has some basically useful function
>>
> 
> What about quaternions?
> 

That would probably be quite a good choice. Want to help write the 
examples ;-)

D.


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