Re: possible bug

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Feb-2006, Bill Denney wrote:

| I personally dislike the fact that matlab doesn't return an error when you 
| use a function name on the LHS of an assignment; it often makes programs 
| significantly harder to debug.  But, this is the way that matlab works, 
| and we can't change it.

It would be possible for Octave to issue a warning if a local variable
shadows a function.  I'm not all that interested in adding this
feature myself, but I would consider a patch.  It should not be too
hard to implement.

jwe



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