[Coin-ipopt] Does the matlab interface support nested functions?

[Zaiwen Wen]

Dear Peter:

Thanks for the replying.  I have tried "global variables". They do work.

Nested functions are supported by matlab's optimization toolbox (at
least for version no later than matlab 7.0), for example, functions
like fminunc and fmincon.  According to my knowledge, fminunc and
fmincon use function handle to rather than strings for the arguments.
Maybe this is the key. But I don't know the detail.

-- 
Best Regards!
Zaiwen

On 7/10/07, Peter Carbonetto <pcarbo at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> > I installed Ipopt3.3 and the matlab interface successfully.
>
> That's good to hear!
>
> > Does the matlab interface support nested functions?
>
> No.
>
> I don't see any way of fixing this problem, so you will have to resort to
> passing "auxdata". I haven't tried global variables, so I'm not sure if
> they will work either. If they work for you, I would be happy to hear
> about it.
>
> Peter Carbonetto
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of British Columbia
>