Renaming Scilab Functions

[Tim Wescott]

I think I'm out of luck, but I'll try anyway:

I want to check some Scilab functions written in Scilab against what are
putatively the same functions written in C.

The reason is that I have a set of code that I'm developing where, for
speed, I use the C functions, but for compatibility I distribute the
Scilab functions (the recipients are using Windows, I'm using Linux, I
don't want to walk them through building Scilab functions from C and they
don't want to learn). The problem is that there is some discrepancy --
one should be able to run the code with either set of functions and get
the same result, but I am seeing markedly different results with the two
function sets.

I would like to have a mechanism for having the two sets of functions
residing on the same Scilab runtime, but with different names. Then I
can do something like:

if (foo_c(a) ~= foo_sci(a)) then freak_out(); end

The only mechanism that I know for doing this involves manually renaming
functions in files -- is there a better way?

Thanks.

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In article <Xa2dnTPXi-1Y57zW...@web-ster.com>,

Not sure if this is any help, but
You can rename functions on the fly (blank lines removed from output)
-->function y = foo(x)
-->y = sin(x);
-->endfunction;
-->foo2=foo
foo2 =
[y]=foo2(x)
-->foo2(%pi)
ans =
1.225E-16
-->function y = foo(x)
-->y = cos(x)
-->endfunction
Warning :redefining function: foo
-->foo(%pi)
ans =
- 1.
-->foo2(%pi)
ans =
1.225E-16

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[Tim Wescott]

Huh. I assumed that the foo2 = foo just aliased foo2 to whatever foo was
-- it appears that it's saved. This is cool; this is cool.

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