[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47091] string representation of a colon expression may be missing parentheses

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #47091 (project octave):

This should be relatively simple to fix, but Lachlan was right that this is an
issue in the parser rather than an issue with printing.  I'm adding jwe to the
CC list since I don't know the parser at all well.

If I create a file tmp.m with the following contents


a = 1;
b = 4;
a + (2:b)


and then run it with all commands set to be echoed I get


octave:2> echo on all
octave:3> blah
+ a = 1;
+ b = 4;
+ a + (2:b)
ans =

   3   4   5

+ 


In this case, the parentheses are properly printed.

Looking at oct-parse.yy, there is only one place where the function
mark_in_parens() is used which is in the rule for "primary_expr"


                | '(' expression ')'
                  { $$ = $2->mark_in_parens (); }


It seems like somehow the rule for anon_fcn_handle does not manange to hit
primary_expr.


anon_fcn_handle : '@' param_list stmt_begin expr_no_assign




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