Re: private functions in the core Octave distribution

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Dec-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| OK, I see the problem. Still, I think there should be just a warning,
| not an error.
| This problem only happens because you have ./q.m and the "." directory
| always stays at top of path. If the other q.m will be somewhere else
| in the path and you prepend d1/private (which is the default), the
| functions will still be able to correctly call each other. It only
| works for one directory, but that is usually enough for debugging.

For debugging, can't you just cd to the private directory?  Or just
call the function that uses the private function you are debugging?

jwe