From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 29 20:58:47 2004
Subject: parse errors do not use error handling routines
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:57:46 -0500

Syntax errors don't set lasterr in octave-2.1.53.  E.g.,

octave> error('this is the last error')
error: this is the last error
octave> try eval('if'); catch lasterr, end
ans = error: this is the last error


Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at users dot sf dot net