Re: dataset objects?

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> I just had someone ask me about dataset objects in Matlab. I didn't
> know about them at all. They seem to be very similar to R's dataframes
> and to our own implementation of dataframes.
> 
> At a glance, they don't seem that difficult to implement, but they do
> seem to be a newish Matlab type (at least from 2009). Should we wait
> for classdef to implement them, or shall we do them with old-style
> classes, or should we bake them in as a new octave_value?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I don't expect to contribute, but I'd like to vote for classdef (should help 
shake out classdef bugs and encourage adding missing features)

Ben