From bug-request at octave dot org Sat Jan  7 00:25:54 2006
Subject: Possible Parsing Bug
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: bugs at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 01:25:48 -0500

On  7-Jan-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| I was just typing some code in 2.1.72 on cygwin when I did something that 
| I was surprised about.  The following code worked correctly (i.e. it 
| returned a 6) when I thought that it should have failed parsing, and 
| similar code fails in matlab 7SP2.
| 
| The code is
| octave:1> localtime(time).year-100
| ans = 6
| 
| The reason that I thought that this may be a bug is because I'm evaluating 
| a field in a structure returned from a function.  Normally, I would have 
| expected to have to set it to a variable.  Similar things work for arrays:
| 
| octave:1> funtion a = testa(x);a = 1:x;endfunction
| octave:2> testa(5)(3)
| ans = 3
| 
| I just wanted to check if this was a bug or a feature.

It's a feature.

jwe



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