From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec 13 23:44:04 1999
Subject: bug in loading files with global vars and in "global x = y"
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: stevenj at alum dot mit dot edu
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:44:45 -0600 (CST)

On 13-Dec-1999, stevenj at gil-galad dot mit dot edu <stevenj@gil-galad.mit.edu> wrote:

| Dear Octave Maintainers,
| 
| I have found a bug in Octave's handling of global variables.  (This bug
| manifests itself in the latest CVS snapshot.)  First of all, the construct
| "global x = y" doesn't work:
| 
| octave> global g = "should be global"
| octave> is_global("g")
| ans = 0

This problem should be fixed in the CVS sources now.  There should
also be a new bleeding-edge release soon that will include the fix.

Thanks,

jwe



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