Paths with '@' signs

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Does Matlab's path-handling have special treatment of directories whose first
character is '@'? I have a package containing such directories, seemingly used
to implement function-overloading.  Specifically, I have a directory tree like:

package/
package/@typea/
package/@typea/funca.m
package/@typea/funcb.m
package/@typeb/
package/@typeb/funca.m
package/@typeb/funcb.m

In matlab, if I do "addpath(pwd)" while in the package/ directory, funca and
funcb become available, with dispatch on type.  This behavior seems to be
missing in Octave's path-handling.  In Octave, neither implementation of the
functions becomes available.

How can I use this package with Octave?  I am running 2.9.10.

- --Ben
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