[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #29476] Parser incompatibility for keywords against Matlab implementation, infinite loop

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #29476 (project octave):

In Octave, "do" is a keyword (for the do until loop syntax) so you can't
create a function or function handle using that name.

Although I am able to reproduce the hanging behavior with Octave 3.3.51, a
copy of Octave built from the development sources returns immediately with a
syntax error.

"The problem is usage of keyword 'do' as function name. As long as it is
unambiguous, and in the example above IT IS, the keyword was accepted as
function name and allowed in the reference to be assigned."

I don't understand what you mean by "the keyword was accepted as function
name".  In what instance does Octave allow a function to have the same name as
a keyword?


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