Re: area function

[Michael Goffioul]

On 11/9/07, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> I quickly ported Michael's area function from jhandles to Octave while
> removing the area-series code, and the result is the attached patch.

I would have prefered that you separate the front-end and the backend
as I did in my implementation. The idea in my implementation was that
the front-end area.m would be shared by any implementation (responsible
for argument checking, parsing and formatting) and the backend
(renamed to __go_areaseries__) would do the rest. In this case, you
could have re-implemented __go_areaseries__ to create simple patches
instead of areaseries objects.

With your current implementation, I don't have any other choice than
keeping my front-end version... :-(

Michael.