Re: area function

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Nov-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| Michael Goffioul wrote:
| > 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.
| >
| >   
| Ok, then what about the attached version?

I applied this patch.

Thanks,

jwe