[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41032] Command function parsing: does handle certain patterns involving commas as parentheses

[Michael C. Grant]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #41032 (project octave):

Commands can indeed be continued across lines. I do not have a precise rule
set for you, but I will look. It does appear that parentheses behave as a sort
of relaxed quotation operator. When single quotes are used, they must be
matched, or an error will occur; but if parentheses are not matched, the token
ends without error. On the other hand, quotes *within* parentheses need not be
matched. 

Here are some strange corner cases.

>> command_test1 this'is
 command_test1 this'is
               |
Error: A MATLAB string constant is not terminated properly.
 
>> command_test1 this'is'
{thisis}
>> command_test1 this(is
{this(is}
>> command_test1 this(is)
{this(is)}
>> command_test1 this(is ....
a test
{this(is }{a}{test}
>> command_test1 this(')
{this(')}
>> command_test1 this('''')
{this('''')}
>> command_test1 this('
{this('}




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