Re: New very simple methodology to create a m-file compiler.

[GoSim]

Ian McCallion wrote
> 
> As has been shown already during this discussion compiling m-code is hard
> and there are necessary restrictions. A way around this would be to enable
> the user to give hints to the compiler. These hints could be by way of
> language extensions, but this would prevent the m-code working on Octave
> releases or environments not supporting compilation, so a better way might
> be by specialised comments. To illustrate this the comment:
> 
>    ###V integer count_things
> 
> could be used to assert that a particular variable is of a particular
> datatype.
> 
> Cheers... Ian

This is a nice and simple solution.




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