Strange parse error

[John W. Eaton]

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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