From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Apr  6 15:30:28 2006
Subject: Re: lookfor bug
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:30:13 -0400

On  5-Apr-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| There is a comment about it in dispatch.cc and using sr->hide(). For
| lookfor the only thing that would make sense is to strip the "builtin:"
| tag when display. This seems to be a bit of a hack... In any case it
| would also have to be done in whos, though it seems which has already
| been fixed...

I suppose it is not really worth fixing if we are going to eventually
eliminate dispatch and go with something that approximates the
class/object features of Matlab.  Then lookup and dispatch will have
to be rewritten anyway.

jwe



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