From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 23 07:51:01 2004
Subject: Syntax error in [ones (1,2); 2 2 ] (2.1.52)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: etienne at cs dot uky dot edu
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:50:08 -0600

On 23-Jan-2004, Etienne Grossmann <etienne at cs dot uky dot edu> wrote:

| Subject: Syntax error in [ones (1,2); 2 2 ]
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| Bug report for Octave 2.1.52 configured for i386-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
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| 
|   Octave has problems w/  the space between ones and (1,2)?
| 
| Repeat-By:
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| 
|     octave:6> [ones (1,2); 2 2 ]
|     parse error:
| 
|     syntax error
| 
|     >>> [ones (1,2); 2 2 ]
|              ^

Yes, because Octave now always parses this as Matlab does:

  [ones, (1, 2); 2, 2]

which doesn't make sense.

jwe



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