[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37467] Errors in 'm' files

[Michael Godfrey]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #37467 (project octave):

Matlab does:

First, it does a test:
>> run 'foo.m'
??? Undefined variable "foo" or class "foo.m".

Error in ==> run at 74
    evalin('caller',[script ';']);
=================
This appears to test for .m as the suffix.
If foo.m is copied to foo, Matlab runs it
if it is a "script" (no .m) with or without
the first line: function [ ret ] = foo().
It appears to just ignore the first line.

I would say that the Matlab behaviour is about as
confusing as the current Octave behaviour.

It might be better if Octave threw an error
if foo.m is a function, but ran it if it is a script.
This would decided if it contains a function
declaration.
The fact that Matlab will not run a "script" who's
name ends with suffix .m seems, to me, not very
reasonable.  But, I would not much object to this
bit of "Matlab compatibility."

 


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