[bug-gawk] Gawk debug command 'eval'

[Lothar Langer]

Hi,

i didn't read anything in the 'Gawk User's Guide' that it is not
possible to evaluate user defined functions with the command 'eval' in
the debugger.

Example:

function isnumeric(x) {
    return (length(x) && x == x+0)
}

...

gawk> eval "print isnumeric(\"hello\")"
error: `return' not allowed in current context; statement ignored

... but ...

gawk> eval "print length(\"hello\")"
5

... which is expected ...

My version is:
GNU Awk 4.2.60, API: 2.0





-- 
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins                 arnold AT skeeve DOT com