Re: What to do with builtin functions not in libinterp subdirectory

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 03/18/2013 11:25 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 12:14, Daniel J Sebald<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > once you have a prototype function designed in C++, one could
> > write an Octave script that scans the source tree replacing all XDEFUNs,
> > then DEFUNs, etc. with the new prototype.
>
> I like the idea in principle of replacing CPP macros with C++ classes,
> and I have undertaken such macro-slaying quests in the past. However,
> I think in this case writing some script to do the conversion cleanly
> might be more work than ad-hoc methods. Don't let that discourage you,
> though. I like this idea a lot.

Yeah, it can be a headache.  Something like SED is tough, but Octave is 
surprisingly good for this sort of thing.  I'll try a prototype this 
week when I'm done with the fftfilt patch that just replaces all those 
macros with some prototype C++ class.  We'll see if it has potential.

Dan