Re: "Octave" namespace for Octave C++ sources for 3.2?

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Aug-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:08 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > I'd like to consider wrapping Octave's classes in a separate
| > namespace.  I think we could do it for 3.2, but maybe there is some
| > reason to avoid this change?  Does anyone have any strong objections
| > to doing this?  Other comments?
| 
| When wrapping into an octave namespace, would you end up (for instance)
| with octave::octave_value or with octave::value? More generally, do you
| intend to keep the octave_ prefix?.

I'd like to eliminate some of them.  I'm not sure we have to remove
all of them.  Even if we do remove some, I think we could use typedefs
to keep the old names around, at least for some time (years, probably).

jwe