[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45945] Missing Matlab's special support for int64/uint64 integer literals

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #21, bug #45945 (project octave):

Yeah, I don't think this is handled by special casing "int64" in the lexer. 
That would cause other trouble anyway because functions may be overloaded, as
you show.

I'm pretty sure the way to handle it is to store the int64 value and use it in
certain contexts.  Weirdly, that apparently only applies to scalar contexts.

This seems similar to the way that "x(idx) = []" deletes elements from X, but
"null = []; x(idx) = null" does not.  In Octave, we give "[]" special status
until an assignment happens.  We could do something similar for integer
literals.

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