Upgrade from 2.1.50 to 2.1.73 breaks code on Windows?

[David Smith]

I recently updated from Octave 2.1.50 to 2.1.73 on my Windows-XP 
computer.  This is using the Windows binary install in both cases.  But 
some of my code now doesn't work with 2.1.73 - for a minor reason which 
I will now illustrate:

If I place the following in a file named "testdata.m":

x = [
1 2
3 4
];

and try to execute "testdata" from the command line, it works in version 
2.1.50 but not in 2.1.73.  For version 2.1.73 it produces these messages:

 syntax error

>>> 1 2 3
   ^

parse error near line 3 of file 
/cygdrive/c/home/davids/projects/TRP_bench/SamHammondsCablePull/testdata.m

 syntax error

>>> 1 2 3
       ^

Notice that if I type the statements from the Octave command line it 
works fine.  Also it is ok if I replace "[" with "[\", everything else 
being the same.

My question is: Is this a bug or a feature?

Dave Smith



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