Re: `argn' ? … still part of Octave?

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Oct-2011, Carnë Draug wrote:

| I found this because I wanted to implement a new class and was trying
| to mimic the obj.method type of API (for matlab compatibility).

I don't think you can completely mimic handle classes in Octave since
Octave doesn't really provide a way to create references.

| idea is to use arg (or inputname) to get the name of the variable in
| the caller and change its value with assignin('caller',...)

OK, I guess you can try that, but it will be somewhat slow and
it seems to me that it will definitely be clumsy.

jwe