Re: deftypefn or defun (deffn)

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/21/2016 10:25 AM, JuanPi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Working with a documentation for  anew package I found that we use
> deftypefn for m-files although functions in Octave are not typed
> functions. Shouldn't we use defun (a.k.a. deffn) instead? That seem to
> be the case for the Interval package, but maybe there is a reason tu
> use the typed function command instead.

We use deftypefn so that we can show the name of the returned value(s). 
 In places where that is not needed, I suppose we could use deffn.  But 
it seems simpler to me to always use the same form.

jwe