From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Oct 17 04:34:52 1995
Subject: Parser error
From: John Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Eyal Doron <doron at mickey dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
Cc: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 04:34:32 -0500

Eyal Doron <doron at mickey dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de> wrote:

: Octave has difficulty parsing the file below, which is legal in 
: MATLAB (and in Octave, according to the docs).
:
: Asymp_coef=[
:  0.08333333333333333         %	 1/12
: -0.002777777777777778        %	-1/360
: ];
:
: Invoking it then gives:
: 
: octave:2> try
: parse error near line 3 of file try.m:
: 
: >>> -0.002777777777777778        %      -1/360

Please try this patch:

Tue Oct 17 04:31:06 1995  John Eaton  <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>

	* lex.l ({CCHAR}): If nesting_level.top() is BRACE, return ';',
	not '\n'.

*** src/lex.~	1995/10/09 13:31:42
--- src/lex.l	1995/10/17 09:23:58
***************
*** 493,500 ****
      current_input_column = 1;
      convert_spaces_to_comma = 1;
  
!     if (nesting_level.empty () || nesting_level.top () == BRACE)
        return '\n';
    }
  
  %{
--- 493,502 ----
      current_input_column = 1;
      convert_spaces_to_comma = 1;
  
!     if (nesting_level.empty ())
        return '\n';
+     else if (nesting_level.top () == BRACE)
+       return ';';
    }
  
  %{