From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Oct 26 07:02:42 2005
Subject: Re: Converting DejaGNU tests to Paul's test/assert infrastructure
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:01:38 -0400


On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:22 AM, David Bateman wrote:
>
> * The functions in the test scripts are converted to funtion handles 
> and so things like
>   fsolve("f", ....) won't work. Paul are the function handles really 
> needed, or is there a way to
>   get the same functionality in the test scripts without nested 
> functions?

The problem is that the test function might blow away a function of the 
same name in the users environment.  Instead I'm generating a unique 
name and returning a handle to that.  The alternative is to find a way 
to create a function in a private namespace only, or to modify the name 
of the function so that it is guaranteed not to collide.

For now we can change the definition to use the function name directly, 
but build a 'private namespace' in the usual way by changing the 
function name to package_fn, or in this case, changing function a to 
function __test_a in the definition and use.  Later when support is 
added for private functions those tests will continue to work without 
change.

- Paul