From help-request at octave dot org Mon Aug  9 09:12:44 2004
Subject: Strange parse error
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: p dot gawthrop at eng dot gla dot ac dot uk
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:12:00 -0400

On  9-Aug-2004, Peter Gawthrop <p dot gawthrop at eng dot gla dot ac dot uk> wrote:

| The following code:
| 
| function x = foo ()
|   eval("arg = 1")
|   x = sin(arg);
| endfunction
| 
| Give a
| parse error near line 3 of file foo.m
|   syntax error
| >>>   x = sin(arg);
| 
| presumably because octave thinks that arg is the built-in of that name
| rather than a variable.
| 
| I am running octave  2.1.57 under debian.
| 
|   Any ideas?

I've not been able to reproduce this problem.  Can you please submit a
complete bug report using the bug_report function from inside Octave?

Thanks,

jwe



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