Re: Handling "parfor" as "for"

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 27 September 2011 00:04, Mark Everitt <address@hidden> wrote:

> By adding a couple of lines in octave.gperf I produced the alias to
> "for" that I wanted. After compilation the addition appears to work
> as expected. I've attached a patch for octave.gperf and the updated
> file itself which amount to the addition of two lines, one for
> parfor and one for endparfor (although this will never appear in
> matlab code I put it in for completeness).
>
> This doesn't give Octave the ability to handle parfor as Matlab does
> with the distributed toolbox, but it gives it similar behaviour as
> Matlab has when it falls back in the absence of the toolbox.
>
> Any thoughts on this?

I think this is a good stopgap. I won't push this myself, but if it
can make Matlab's users' lives easier when they come to Octave, I
approve.

This is a pretty fundamental addition to Octave, though, so I don't
feel personally qualified to apply this change.

- Jordi G. H.