[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
function handles & dispatch
|
From: |
John W. Eaton |
|
Subject: |
function handles & dispatch |
|
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:38:47 -0400 |
On 23-Jun-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| scanning the Matlab online docs, I found this paragraph in the section
| on function handles:
|
| For nonoverloaded functions, subfunctions, and private functions, a
| function handle references just the one function specified in the
| @functionname syntax. When you evaluate an overloaded function by
| means of its handle, the arguments the handle is evaluated with
| determine the actual function that MATLAB dispatches to.
|
| I don't think Octave currently does this - only functions are looked
| for, and the function is fixed once the handle is evaluated. Can
| anyone verify this is true in Matlab? Should we change the behavior to
| be Matlab compatible?
Yes, we should probably try to fix this. Beware of US patent #6857118.
jwe