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Feature, not bug
From: |
Heber Farnsworth |
Subject: |
Feature, not bug |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 01:30:37 -0800 (PST) |
Here is a little thing I noticed which is not really a problem but could
probably be handled better. Suppose you type the name of a file in your
load path which is not a function file. I did this when I accidentally
typed
octave:2> non2.oct
when I meant to type 'load non2.oct'. I got the following
non2.oct =
panic: impossible state reached in file `tc-rep.cc' at line 1764
error: Illegal instruction -- stopping myself...
This is not a problem since Octave quits nice and cleanly (thanks to good
programming by jwe) but perhaps it could be handled better. This would
have been very frustrating if I had spent a long time manipulating some
data but had not saved it. It would be flushed because of a silly typing
error.
Just a thought.
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- Feature, not bug,
Heber Farnsworth <=