GSoC Code Sharing - weboptions

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Dear Sahil,

I've just seen your commit [1], where you added setters for the weboptions class.  In my opinion this happened in a very complicated way.  There is a "cleaner" syntax to define setters in classdef classes, that is working in Octave 4.4.0.  For example:

classdef myClass < handle

  properties

    A

  endproperties

  methods

    function set.A (obj, val)

      if (val > 0)

        obj.A = val;

      else

        error ("Serious?");

      endif

    endfunction

  endmethods

endclassdef

There is to admit, that the classdef documentation in Octave has potential for improvement. Thus it might sometimes be beneficial to sneak at Matlab [2], to get an idea how it will once be working in Octave. A similar example can be found in [3].

Best,

Kai

[1] https://bitbucket.org/me_ydv_5/octave/commits/abbc8f5c151b437848a9530f5c17f555f609bdcb

[2] https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_oop/property-set-methods.html

[3] https://github.com/vsdp/vsdp-2018/blob/master/vsdp_options.m