From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 8 20:40:53 1999 Subject: `alias' feature request (Santa part II 1/2) From: Joao Cardoso To: help-octave Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:40:30 +0000 Hi, Couldn't a function, call it `alias', be created? Some times I want to test an existing script but using different functions other than the ones that the script call, and I must re-edit the whole script. If alias(old_function/script, new_function/script) existed, my life would be easier :-) For exemple, if I want to use my own special `min' and `max', `my_min' and `my_max', I would just type `alias("min", "my_min")' in the command line and all scripts would use my misterious "my_min". Of course, an `unalias("min")' must also exist. Convinced? Thanks, Joao -- Joao Cardoso, INESC | e-mail: R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094345 4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487