From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Feb  1 15:59:09 2005
Subject: strange error message
From: Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti dot cnr dot it>
To: Octave bugs list <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:47:31 -0600

I wrote a bugged function, appended below.  The bug is in the for
instruction, where I wrote "i" instead of "1".

The strange thing is that I get this error message, which I suspect
exposes a bug.

pot at pot:~/math/workarea$ octave  --no-line-editing
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octave at pot:1> baco()
error: invalid XXX FIXME XXX index = 0
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating binary operator `==' near line 8, column 38
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: evaluating postfix operator `'' near line 8, column 50
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 8, column 14
error: evaluating for command near line 7, column 5
error: evaluating for command near line 5, column 3
error: called from `baco' in file `/home/pot/math/workarea/baco.m'
octave at pot:1> 

===File ~/math/workarea/baco.m==============================
function rit = baco ()

  E = ones(2, 2, 2);

  for r = i:2;
    R = zeros(5,2);
    for n=1:5
      R(n,:) = any(squeeze(E(r,:,:)) == n*ones(2,2))';
    endfor
  endfor

endfunction
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