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File extensions in __list_functions__
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
File extensions in __list_functions__ |
Date: |
Tue, 26 May 2009 09:52:34 -0400 |
On 26-May-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| When generating documentation caches for 'lookfor' we use the
| '__list_functions__' function (defined in 'src/help.cc'), which returns
| a list of functions in a given directory. Currently, the returned list
| of functions includes extensions, i.e. you get list elements like
| "foo.m" and "bar.oct". This is breaking the cache generation in 'pkg'.
|
| My questions is, should '__list_functions__' be changed such that
| extensions are not returned, or should functions calling
| '__list_functions__' remove the extensions themselves?
Are the extensions actually used anywhere? If so, how? Would it be
useful to be able to distinguish among .m, .oct, and .mex files?
It seems odd that __list_funtions__ returns a list of function names
without extensions, but __list_functions__ (DIR) returns a list with
extensions.
Your message also reminds me that we currently have
__list_functions__
__builtins__
__keywords__
How about being consistent and using
__list_functions__
__list_built_in_functions__
__list_keywords__
?
Also, why do we need a separate list of built-in functions? Could we
simply include the built-in function names in the output of
__list_functions__?
Finally, is there currently a way to list all the visible function
names with a single function call? I think that could be useful thing
to have.
What about having a single function to list all the function names and
keywords? It could return a structure array with names and additional
info about the functions. For example, we could use the fields
name = "for"
keyword = true
builtin = false
m = false
oct = false
mex = false
Or maybe there is a better way to do this?
It might also be good to have a data structure that would allow us to
easily produce diagnostics about functions that have multiple
definitions.
jwe
- File extensions in __list_functions__, Søren Hauberg, 2009/05/26
- File extensions in __list_functions__,
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: File extensions in __list_functions__, Søren Hauberg, 2009/05/26
- Re: File extensions in __list_functions__, John W. Eaton, 2009/05/26
- Re: File extensions in __list_functions__, Søren Hauberg, 2009/05/26
- Re: File extensions in __list_functions__, John W. Eaton, 2009/05/26
- Re: File extensions in __list_functions__, Søren Hauberg, 2009/05/26
- Re: File extensions in __list_functions__, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/05/26