Re: feval call to a subfunction fails when it is in a subfunction

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Sidney Markowitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote, On 2/10/09 9:21 AM:
>>
>> I don't think this ever worked, so it's not really a regression...
>
> I don't know about the general case of the bug, but the feval test that I
> posted does work in the 3.0.1 version that is in the Ubuntu repository. And
> it certainly worked when mgene was written, which makes it a regression from
> the standpoint of at least that application that relies on Octave.
>

When trying with 3.0.5, the feval call really works, but "mysin" is
inserted into global namespace, which is wrong.
So on the whole, it doesn't work correctly, although the result is
more satisfactory for you (maybe for most people).
In reality it doesn't really matter since the symbol table code has
been completely rewritten since.

best

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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