Re: def const in .oct file

[Tom Holroyd]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> With 2.9.x, you can use
>
>  autoload ("AF_UNIX", "/full/name/of/connect.oct");
>
> in a PKG_ADD file that is installed in the same directory as connect.oct.

Oh!  So that's what that's for.

> Instead of trying to scan the compiled file, Octave's build 
> process scans the sources for DEFUN macros and lines that look 
> like this:

>  // PKG_ADD: ...

or ## PKG_ADD: in an .m file.

In this example:

## PKG_ADD: dispatch ("fft", "gfft", "galois");

dispatch does function overloading for variables of type galois.

Cool.