Mercurial > octave
changeset 33231:92ca2f6c6b85
find help for default constructor in one more place (bug #65258)
* help.cc (help_system::raw_help_from_symbol_table):
Return signature of default constructor if searching for
class_name.class_name and the class is found but not the constructor.
(help_system::raw_help_for_class): Fix spacing for default constructor
signature.
| author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:40:31 -0400 |
| parents | 515c1cc1b45e |
| children | c5dc54712378 |
| files | libinterp/corefcn/help.cc |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/libinterp/corefcn/help.cc Wed Mar 20 23:14:22 2024 -0400 +++ b/libinterp/corefcn/help.cc Thu Mar 21 10:40:31 2024 -0400 @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ // We found a class, but no docstring for it and there is no // constructor explicitly defined. - help = "default constructor: obj = " + name + "()"; + help = "default constructor: obj = " + name + " ()"; what = "constructor"; symbol_found = true; return true; @@ -840,7 +840,21 @@ octave_value ov_meth = cls.get_method (nm); if (get_help_from_fcn (nm, ov_meth, help, what, symbol_found)) - return true; + { + what = "class method"; + return true; + } + + // Found class but no method. If the NM is the same as the name + // of the class, then we have a default constructor. + + if (cls.get_name () == nm) + { + help = "default constructor: obj = " + nm + " ()"; + what = "constructor"; + symbol_found = true; + return true; + } // FIXME: Should we only find public properties here?