From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Oct  9 13:00:15 1999
Subject: 2.1.14 : Updated .m file 
From: etienne grossmann <etienne at anonimo dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: etienne at isr dot ist dot utl dot pt
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 19:00:42 +0100 (WEST)


  Hello,

  If I create in octave's path a file "buggy.m" containing the two
  lines  :  

======================================================================
function b = buggy(x)
  b = 1 ;
======================================================================

  In octave, I call the function and get the correct answer :

octave:117> buggy()
ans = 1

  Then I put an error in buggy.m, for example by appending the line

======================================================================
  print("forget parenthesis" ;
======================================================================

 Octave will complain next time I call "buggy()", which is normal too :

======================================================================
octave:122> buggy()
parse error near line 3 of file /home/etienne/prog/octave/mylib/buggy.m

>>>   print("forget parenthesis" ;
                                 ^

error: evaluating expression near line 122, column 1
======================================================================

  However, the following call will alternatively succeed and fail :

======================================================================
octave:122> buggy()
ans = 1
octave:123> buggy()
parse error near line 3 of file /home/etienne/prog/octave/mylib/buggy.m

>>>   print("forget parenthesis" ;
                                 ^

error: evaluating expression near line 123, column 1
======================================================================

  Cheers,

  Etienne

  



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