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Re: Strange parse error


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: Strange parse error
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:59:17 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

Sorry to say it but, here I get

octave:1> foo
parse error near line 3 of file /home/dbateman/foo.m

  syntax error

>>>   x = sin(arg);
                  

but hey its a pretty stupid thing to do in any case. Wrapping the "x =
sin(arg)" in an eval as well and the problem goes away..

D.



According to John W. Eaton <address@hidden> (on 08/09/04):
> On  9-Aug-2004, Peter Gawthrop <address@hidden> 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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