[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50034] "help ./" causes some extraneous printout of path info

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #50034 (project octave):

I don't think so.  When used in the command form, the Octave interpreter will
strip off whitespace and everything will work fine.  When a user chooses
quotes, it's because they want to specifically control how the interpreter
will handle the string.  In particular, by using single quotes the user is
saying that they want to see exactly what they typed with absolutely no
interference from Octave (no breaking tokens at spaces, no interpolation of
special escape sequences like \n, etc.).  If a user has typed


help (' sin')


then the interpreter should respect that and assume the programmer has a good
reason for requiring a space where it was placed.



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