Re: scripts in private directories?

[Rik]

On 11/22/2019 09:01 AM, address@hidden wrote:

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scripts in private directories?

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Mike Miller <address@hidden>

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11/21/2019 01:32 PM

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Hi,

In bug #57236, I found a change in Octave 6 behavior with respect to
scripts (not function files) in private directories. However, I haven't
found any documentation, neither Octave nor Matlab, about scripts in
private directories. Is this a feature worth caring about, or does it
just work by accident?

Not that we have to follow Matlab, but can someone with access test this?

The change is that a script 'a/private/pscript.m' can't call a function
file in the same directory 'a/private/pfunc.m' in Octave 6, it was able
to in Octave 5.1.0.

Is this a particularly useful feature to have, even if it were confirmed that Matlab supports it?

Scripts, effectively a laundry list of commands, don't seem like an object that would regularly be put in a library of functions.  Instead, they seem like a top-level, user-sort of object that calls functions. 

Just my two cents,
Rik

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mike