From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Dec 16 09:59:48 2003
Subject: type renders [fn(value)] ambiguously
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:58:58 -0500

octave-2.1.52, Debian:

	octave:1> function y=f, y=[sin(2)]; end
	octave:2> type f
	f is a user-defined function:

	function y = f ()
	  y = [sin (2)];
	endfunction

If you then go on to say edit('f'), edit will
use 'type' to get the current function definition
and store it in the file.  When running octave with the
traditional flags set, f will then give the following
error:

	octave:11> f
	error: sin: too few arguments
	error: evaluating assignment expression near line 25, column 5
	error: called from `f' in file `/home/pkienzle/octave/f.m'


Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at users dot sf dot net



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