Yet another OOP update

[Robert T. Short]

Glad to.

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  8-May-2009, Robert T. Short wrote:
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> | Attached is a patch that will fix object load to call the class 
> | constructor.  I also fixed the load_ascii function and fixed "struct" to 
> | return the underlying struct when the argument is an object.
> | 
> | I tested this on some fairly complex objects and it seems to work for 
> | -text, -hdf5 and -v6 files.  I don't like the way it fails when there 
> | are errors (e.g. a constructor with arguments) and will make it nicer, 
> | but this works quite nicely.
>
> I checked in this changeset.
>
> Could you also look at the code in src/ls-mat5.cc that loads objects
> from MAT files and make similar changes there?  Also, since the
> structure of the code that loads MAT files is different, you can
> easily convert an object to a struct if there is a problem with the
> exemplar or the call to the constructor fails.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe
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