From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct 11 22:45:57 1999
Subject: 2.1.14 : Updated .m file 
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: etienne at isr dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, etienne@isr.ist.utl.pt
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:45:28 -0500 (CDT)

On  9-Oct-1999, etienne grossmann <etienne at anonimo dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt> wrote:

|   If I create in octave's path a file "buggy.m" containing the two
|   lines  :  
| 
| ======================================================================
| function b = buggy(x)
|   b = 1 ;
| ======================================================================
| 
|   In octave, I call the function and get the correct answer :
| 
| octave:117> buggy()
| ans = 1
| 
|   Then I put an error in buggy.m, for example by appending the line
| 
| ======================================================================
|   print("forget parenthesis" ;
| ======================================================================
| 
|  Octave will complain next time I call "buggy()", which is normal too :
| 
| ======================================================================
| octave:122> buggy()
| parse error near line 3 of file /home/etienne/prog/octave/mylib/buggy.m
| 
| >>>   print("forget parenthesis" ;
|                                  ^
| 
| error: evaluating expression near line 122, column 1
| ======================================================================
| 
|   However, the following call will alternatively succeed and fail :
| 
| ======================================================================
| octave:122> buggy()
| ans = 1
| octave:123> buggy()
| parse error near line 3 of file /home/etienne/prog/octave/mylib/buggy.m
| 
| >>>   print("forget parenthesis" ;
|                                  ^
| 
| error: evaluating expression near line 123, column 1

I don't see this behavior with my current sources for either the 2.0.x
or the 2.1.x development trees, so I think the problem may have been
fixed.

I am working on trying to make a 2.0.15 and 2.1.15 releases.  Things
that are slowing me down include a dead web/ftp server.  :-(

jwe



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