Re: package manager patch + problem

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  2-Mar-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > | The other disadvantage is that it is ugly.
> | > | 
> | > | The documentation for file_in_loadpath says it
> | > | returns the absolute path, and testing on
> | > | octave 2.1.69 OS X supports this.
> | >
> | > I think that using file_in_loadpath can cause some confusion if there
> | > are multiple functions with the same name in the loadpath.
> | >
> | > jwe
> | >
> | >   
> | That might be addressed with something like
> | 
> | autoload("glog",file_in_loadpath("gf.oct")[1]);
>
> I don't think this is valid syntax.  Maybe you meant something else?
> But if it was
>
>   file_in_loadpath ("gf.oct", "all"){1}
>
> then I don't see the difference, as
>
>   file_in_loadpath ("gf.oct")
>
> should return the first entry anyway.
>
> jwe
>
>   
Yeah that is what I meant.. Sorry I was writing C code at the time

D.

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