[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #64072] segfault when calling set with invalid parameters

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #64072 (project octave):

I was trying to give more information about where in the input stream the
problem was.  A generic message would just be "invalid syntax", but wouldn't
help as much in debugging.

For example,


h = plot (1:10);
set (h, 'color', 'b', 2)


That is invalid syntax, even though the first name/value pair is correct.  I
thought it was helpful that the error message would say that the problem was
in input #4 in this case.

I suppose the input validation within Fset could be increased and you could
have two specific errors here:
1) property "NAME" must be followed by a value
2) cell array of strings {"PROPERTIES"} must be followed by a cell array of
values.
 




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