[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54094] The command window freezes if you you use single equal (=) in while function instead of double equal(==)

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #54094 (project octave):

Doesn't Ctrl-C work for Windows?

In a file called whiletest.m I put


x = 5;
while (x = 1)
  y = x + 1;
endwhile


and for linux I see the following:


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>> whiletest
warning: suggest parenthesis around assignment used as truth value near line
2, column 10 in file '/home/linux/octave/bug/54094/whiletest.m'

>>


in which I typed Ctrl-C to break out of the infinite loop.  Also note that I'm
seeing a warning at the point of the "mistyped" equal sign.

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