Re: Checking octave_value equality (==) without generating an error?

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/22/2014 04:40 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a function/method that would check whether 2
> octave_value objects are equal, but I don't want to generate an error
> (e.g. if objects are not comparable, then I simply want to return
> false). AFAIK do_binary_op will generate an error if required. Is there
> such method in octave?
>
> For the record: this is in the context of property set-accessor [1][2]
>
> Michael.
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_oop/property-access-methods.html#brgsek9-3
> [2] http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/meta.property.html (AbortSet)

There is isequal, but it is a .m file.  Maybe it's a candidate for 
conversion to C++?  I don't think you would need to use try/catch if 
done by dispatching within the octave_value class heirarchy.

jwe