Re: Explanation of Octave operator overloading

[Paul Thomas]

David,

> Note that I intend to delete this code in octave-forge now that the 
> code to treat positive definite matrices is in octave itself, so 
> rescuing it and using it as an example in da coda or del segna is 
> probably a good idea. In fact if you are really motivated, rescuing 
> both da coda and del segna, and this code and writing a chapter on 
> oct-files for the octave 3.0 manual might be even better :-)
Whilst I have gone silent on the maintainers list, I am still reading 
some of the postings.  I thought that the reaction to del segna was so 
underwhelming that I was put off from any further work on it.  More 
importantly, there was an opinion that the API should be improved in 
such a way as to make oct-files an irrelevance.  This was sufficiently 
persuasive as to stop me in my tracks!  If there is any call for it, I 
am prepared to help prepare a manual entry, in any way that I can.

Best regards

Paul Thomas