ok, looks like that change was made in January with
https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/ga/ci/be9e984cf0ba32a208c67c5d6dbdf9e90ee0f44a/

it will be part of the next ga package version release.

Good catch! Thanks. I was staring at this line for some time trying to figure out what is wrong with it.

Dmitri.
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With 9.2 pre-release I see:

octave:1> pkg load ga
octave:2> test ga verbose
>>>>> /home/dima/.local/share/octave/api-v59/packages/ga-0.10.3/ga.m
***** shared f, nvars
 f = @rastriginsfcn;
 nvars = 2;
***** error x = ga ()
***** error x = ga (f)
***** error x = ga (f, nvars, [])
***** error x = ga (f, nvars, [], [], [])
***** error x = ga (f, nvars, [], [], [], [], [])
***** error x = ga (f, nvars, [], [], [], [], [], [], @(x) [[], []], gaoptimset (), [])
***** function f = ff (nvars)
  f = @(x) sum (x(:, 1:nvars) .** 2, 2);
!!!!! test failed: syntax error
parse error:

  anonymous function bodies must be single expressions

>>> function f = ff (nvars)
  f = @(x) sum (x(:, 1:nvars) .** 2, 2);
                                    ^
shared variables
    f = @rastriginsfcn
    nvars = 2
-verbose-

Total 6 failures. On Linux and Windows.

Dmitri.
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