From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan  8 12:11:10 1998
Subject: function name != file name => load broken
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Frederic Gobry <gobry at idiap dot ch>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 12:06:18 -0600

On  8-Jan-1998, Frederic Gobry <gobry at idiap dot ch> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| When I create a file named identic.m that contains the definition of a
| function whose name isn't `identic', the builtin function `load' doesn't
| work anymore... (the filename seems to be mandatory, whereas any function
| name seems to "work")
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| Create the file `identic.m' somewhere in octave's LOADPATH containing the
| following lines :
| 
| function broker
| endfunction
| 
| ...launch octave and type `identic' or even `which identic'.
| Then when I try to use the `load' function, I get :
| 
| >> load foo
| parse error:
| 
| >>> load foo

Please try the following patch.

Thanks!

jwe


Thu Jan  8 11:54:33 1998  John W. Eaton  <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>

	* symtab.cc (symbol_table::rename): Properly insert new item at
	the front of the list to avoid losing the rest of the items.


*** octave-2.0.9.95/src/symtab.cc	Fri Nov 21 14:36:40 1997
--- src/symtab.cc	Thu Jan  8 11:54:27 1998
***************
*** 930,935 ****
--- 930,936 ----
  	  prev->chain (ptr->next ());
  
  	  index = hash (new_name) & HASH_MASK;
+ 	  ptr->chain (table[index].next ());
  	  table[index].chain (ptr);
  	  ptr->rename (new_name);