Re: Worth to mention in Octave 6 NEWS, support for private in namespaces?

[Julien Bect]

Le 29/04/2020 à 20:12, José Abílio Matos a écrit :
>         this is something that I notice when working with Octave 5 and
> Octave 6. As I said in another message I am using a namespace:
>
> +dir1/+dir2
> +dir1/file1.m
> +dir1/private/file2.m
>
> The path has the location where +dir1 is but not +dir1.
>
> The difference between Octave 5 and 6 is that file1 "knows" file2 in Octave 6
> but not in Octave 5.
>
> I suppose that it means that Octave 6 supports private in namespaces but
> Octave 5. If that it is the case then I think that it would be worth to refer
> this in NEWS.
>
> What do you think?


Actually, I have even simpler (but related) questions:

1) Does Octave officially support these "namespaces" (directories 
starting with a "+") ?

I know that the functionality has been implemented to some extent for 
some time now, but I failed to locate any mention of this in the Release 
Notes or in the manual.  Have I missed something ?

2) How are they called in Octave ?

The corresponding functionality in Matlab in called "package", but this 
word refers to something entirely different in Octave...

@++
Julien