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Especially for new developers it is hard to get started with liboctave, one of the core elements of GNU Octave. Liboctave defines and implements data types, operators, and much more. To change that state this long term project has the following goals:
Especially for new developers it is hard to get started with liboctave, one of the core elements of GNU Octave. Liboctave defines and implements data types, operators, and much more. To change that state this long term project has the following goals:


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* Bring all the data types into order
* Bring all the data types into order
* Reduce the code to a sufficient minimum
* Reduce the code to a sufficient minimum
* Remove Makros where possible
* Remove macros where possible


= Milestone 1 - The Array hierarchy =
= Milestone 1 - The Array hierarchy =
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Questions:
Questions / Tasks:
 
* On any changes to this structure there is an API-Constraint with [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Oct_002dFiles.html Oct-Files].
** TODO: Document inside the C++-Classes that this are API relevant classes.


* Identify the difference between for example Array<char>, charNDArray, and charMatrix
* Identify the difference between for example Array<char>, charNDArray, and charMatrix
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** What are preservable convenience classes?
** What are preservable convenience classes?
** Is there code redundancy?
** Is there code redundancy?
* Is there a necessity to specialize?
** e.g. ComplexRowVector and RowVector vs. RowVector<T>
* Does every file name reflect its content? (Nested classes, etc.)
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