[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37859] syntax error in anonymous function input to quad() wipes/corrupts variables in current scope

[Ed Bueler]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37859>

                 Summary: syntax error in anonymous function input to quad()
wipes/corrupts variables in current scope
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: bueler
            Submitted on: Mon 03 Dec 2012 10:09:54 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: bueler
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.2.4
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

This should say what is needed:



$ octave
>> version
ans = 3.2.4
>> yxz = pi
yxz =  3.1416
>> f = @(x) x.^2
f =

@(x) x .^ 2

>> gfoobar = @(x) sin(x)
gfoobar =

@(x) sin (x)

>> whos
Variables in the current scope:

  Attr Name         Size                     Bytes  Class
  ==== ====         ====                     =====  ===== 
       ans          1x5                          5  char
       f            1x1                          0  function_handle
       gfoobar      1x1                          0  function_handle
       yxz          1x1                          8  double

Total is 8 elements using 13 bytes

>> quad(@(x),0,1)
parse error:

  syntax error

>>> quad(@(x),0,1)
             ^

>> whos
Variables in the current scope:

  Attr Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
  ==== ====        ====                     =====  ===== 
   f   x          -1x-1                         0  unknown

Total is 1 element using 0 bytes
>> 






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