From maintainers-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 30 14:40:20 2006
Subject: Re: Bi variate to mono variate functions
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com, Anglade Pierre-Matthieu <anglade@gmail.com>,         maintainers@octave.org
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:40:18 -0500

On 30-Mar-2006, I wrote:

| Inline functions are created using eval_string, which is given
| something like
| 
|   " at (ARGS) EXPRESSION"
| 
| where EXPRESSION is the argument passed to inline, and ARGS are the
| variable names extracted from EXPRESSION.

The answer appears to be yes, it would cause an incompatibility,
because functions constructed with inline don't seem to pick up
unbound variables from the parent context when they are constructed.
So we would need a way to limit this feature to actual anonymous
functions.

jwe