[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51659] Calling 'methods' on self causes syntax error

[Piotr Held]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51659>

                 Summary: Calling 'methods' on self causes syntax error
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: jsoh425
            Submitted on: Fri 04 Aug 2017 05:57:30 PM UTC
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Piotr Held
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

When calling methods on self the interpreter calls a syntax error. Which kind
of makes sense since it hasn't yet interpreted the whole class yet, however
Matlab lets you do this. Let me give an example.

Consider the following code:


classdef test_methods <handle
  methods
    function tst1 (self)
      methodNames = methods (self);
    end
  end
end

%!test
%! a = test_methods;
%! a.tst1();


When calling 'test test_methods' the interpreter responds with:


parse error near line 6 of file [...]/test_methods.m

  syntax error

>>>       m = methods (self);


I will upload this as a file as well. 



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Date: Fri 04 Aug 2017 05:57:30 PM UTC  Name: test_methods.m  Size: 162B   By:
jsoh425

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