Re: matlab namespace

[Richard Crozier]

On 20/11/17 15:06, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 20 November 2017 at 10:29, Richard Crozier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 26/10/17 08:32, Richard Crozier wrote:
> > > Dear List,
> > >
> > > Matlab are gradually introducing the use of namespaces, with a base
> > > namespace of 'matlab', e.g. matlab.lang.makeValidName is replacing
> > > genvarname.
> > >
> > > My question is, how is Octave planning to deal with this? This is
> > > important for writing portable code, for instance I already have tests in my
> > > code for whether an object is of class 'matlab.graphics.axis.Axes' (for
> > > checking input).
> > >
> > > Will Octave use 'matlab', or replace 'matlab' with 'octave'? Or some other
> > > solution?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> >
> > No thoughts on the above at all?
> >
> > Richard
>
> Actually, I just came across a similar issue last week.  A colleague
> was trying to run Matlab code in Octave that made use of the
> matlab.mixin.heterogeneous class [1]
>
> Maybe it's possible to import an entire namespace into another so we
> could import matlab.* into the octave namespace?
>
> Carnë
>
> [1] 
> https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.mixin.heterogeneous-class.html


I was thinking maybe something you could put in your .octaverc like

alias_namespace ('octave', 'matlab');

that makes 'matlab' or whatever, an alias of 'octave'.

I don't know if there's any copyright issues with using matlab, but this 
would also sidestep them, since users could put what they like here.

Richard

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