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bug #32651: Function precedence for derived classes different to Matlab

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 02 Mar 2011 03:32:31 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Steve Marple Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * dev
Operating System:  * GNU/Linux Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Tue 20 Sep 2011 11:01:28 AM UTC, comment #3: 

John, you're change works for me. Ok to close?

 Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Tue 20 Sep 2011 06:16:19 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I checked in the following change yesterday:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6c952376482d

I think this change will fix the problem reported here.  I did not include the bug report number in the changeset log text because discovered the problem separately and just noticed this report now.

 John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Sun 18 Sep 2011 03:13:09 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Matlab is behaving as I'd expect.

So, in my opinion, this does appear to be an Octave bug.

I'm changing the release to "dev" as I suspect this would modify the API.

My c++ skills are poor and I'm unfamiliar with this part of the code, but if someone can provide a patch I'm can do some testing and apply it to the sources.

 Ben Abbott <bpabbott>
Group Member
Wed 02 Mar 2011 03:32:31 PM UTC, original submission:  

In Matlab a class can contain a function having the same name as another class; the purpose of such a function being to convert one object to an object of a different type. In Octave the converter function is never called, the class constructor is always called.

It appears that Octave follows Mathwork's published function precedence (http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/matlab_prog/f7-58170.html#bresuvu-6) whereas Matlab does not. Octave's behaviour does not allow the creation of converter functions as such functions can never be called.

Is this a bug in Octave?

Test results:
MATLAB:

>> p2=pcls2

pcls2 constructor

>> pcls(p2)

convert pcls2 to pcls
pcls constructor

>> d=dcls

dcls constructor
pcls constructor

>> pcls(d)

convert dcls to pcls

>> version


ans =

6.5.1.199709 (R13) Service Pack 1


OCTAVE:
octave:1> p2=pcls2
pcls2 constructor
octave:2> pcls(p2)
pcls constructor
octave:3> d=dcls
dcls constructor
pcls constructor
octave:4> pcls(d)
pcls constructor
octave:5> OCTAVE_VERSION
ans = 3.2.3

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