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bug #49647: octave foo.m vs. octave /other/path/to/foo.m

Submitter:  Muhali <muhali>
Submitted:  Fri 18 Nov 2016 08:05:34 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Regression
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * GNU/Linux
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Fri 18 Nov 2016 10:13:47 PM UTC, comment #2: 

And this may be related to the fix for bug #33411. If the file does not exist in the current directory, then it has not already been seen by the parser, and it is sourced like the previous version of Octave. If it is in the current directory or otherwise in the load path, then it has already been parsed, and for some reason "source foo.m" instead invokes the function foo. That may have been an unintended consequence of the change

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4c080cbc4ef9

 Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Fri 18 Nov 2016 10:06:19 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I can confirm this difference / possible regression between 4.0.3 and 4.2.0.

I think this change can be explained by or is related to the following difference in behavior:


## Octave 4.0.3
>> ls foo.m
foo.m
>> source foo.m
>> which foo
'foo' is a command-line function

## Octave 4.2.0
>> ls foo.m
foo.m
>> source foo.m
error: 'x' undefined near line 2 column 3
error: called from
    foo at line 2 column 2
>> which foo
'foo' is a function from the file /home/mike/src/octave/default/+build-default/foo.m


 Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Fri 18 Nov 2016 08:05:34 PM UTC, original submission:  

with the simple


# foo.m
function y = foo(x)
y=x;
endfunction


I get for `octave foo.m':

error: 'x' undefined near line 3 column 8
error: execution exception in foo.m

whereas no error occurs for `octave /tmp/foo.m'

the latter pointing to a copy of foo.m.

No errors occur for octave stable.

Muhali <muhali>

 

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    2016-11-18 mtmiller CategoryNone Interpreter
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