From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Jan 28 03:11:28 2000
Subject: eval("return") fails
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Rolf Fabian <fabian at tu-cottbus dot de>
Cc: "'bug-octave'" <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 03:11:18 -0600 (CST)

On 18-Jun-1999, Rolf Fabian <fabian at tu-cottbus dot de> wrote:

| #example function  to demonstrate bug
| function y=test(x)
| eval("y=1/x;","y=[]; return; y='HI' ");
| end
| 
| any vector input  should return y=[] but  we get  for e.g.
| y=test(1:3)
| |-   always y=HI 			#V2.0.13  (cygwin)
| 
| I checked  'test'-function also under V2.1.14 experimental OS/2 ...
| .. failed too!

This problem is fixed in my current development sources:

  octave:8> function y=test(x)
  > eval("y=1/x;","y=[]; return; y='HI' ");
  > end
  octave:9> test (1:3)
  ans = [](0x0)

The fix should appear in the CVS archive soon.

Thanks,

jwe



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