Re: core, matlab, & OF name conflicts [Was: strsplit needs an update]

[Carnë Draug]

On 31 March 2013 15:28, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The conflicts between names of m-files isn't going away.  Should a naming 
> convention for OF packages be adopted to reduce the likelihood of a name 
> conflict between Octave core and/or Matlab?
>
> Perhaps the package functions could begin with a prefix?  For example, all 
> control package functions could begin with "ctrl_".  Thus foo.m becomes 
> ctrl_foo.m?

OF can't avoid name conflicts with matlab, no more than core can. And
there's been no conflict between OF and core, only when also being
caused by matlab. For the same reason we don't prefix all octave only
functions with oct_, I see no reason to prefix all OF functions with
the package name.

Carnë