From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Apr  6 14:39:12 2006
Subject: Re: autoload
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>,         octave bug mailing list <bug@octave.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:38:38 -0400

On  6-Apr-2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

| Also, after making these changes, I remembered that scripts are not
| entered on the call stack because script files are not functions, so
| something like the following fails
| 
|   foo.m:
|   -----
|   function foo ()
|     bar;
| 
|   bar.m:
|   -----
|   mfilename ();
| 
|   foo ()
|      ==> foo
| 
| (I think it should report "bar").  Perhaps we need a dummy function
| object that can be used for scripts to at least hold file names and
| some other information so we could store it on the call stack.  I'll
| try to see if I can make that work in the next few days.

This is done now and the changes are checked in.

jwe



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