Re: Explanation of Octave operator overloading

[David Bateman]

Paul Thomas wrote:
> I thought that the reaction to del segna was so underwhelming that I 
> was put off from any further work on it.  
I know what you mean by underwhelming... Its rare when someone actual 
acknowledges the amount of effort someone else has put into software (or 
its documentation). Lots of users just take it for granted that someone 
else is willing to spend months on end of their personal time to improve 
the packages they use without even the slightest feedback. I firmly 
believe that open source developers are paid in appreciation and if you 
don't pay them they stop working just like anyone else in the software 
industry. I'm not saying that users need to all send thank letters, in 
fact the most useful feedback is often a well thought out (and non 
abusive) criticism. This gives hope of recruiting a colleague rather 
than a user, which in the long run is much more value to an open-source 
project.

For what its worth I thought Dal Segna was worth something and a very 
useful resource for someone starting to write oct-files.

Cheers
David