[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41992] inputname fails for arguments stemming from a list

[Rik]

Update of bug #41992 (project octave):

                 Release:                   3.8.1 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #3:

It seems pretty clear that Matlab expands any inputs to a function, such as
comma-separated lists, before creating the input argument list.  Octave seems
to do the reverse and makes the list of inputs directly from what is available
in the parser.

For reference, the code to modify is in ov-usr-fcn.cc.  The function that
populates the symbol table is


bind_automatic_vars (arg_names, nargin, nargout, all_va_args (args),
                     lvalue_list);


It is the arg_names variable which is different than expected.

Before this gets fixed, which may never happen, I have re-written inputname so
that it at least won't issue strange index out-of-bound errors.  See
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2892f62fb37c.



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