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

[Piotr Held]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #51659 (project octave):

If you want to close the bug, that's fine. I do see your point. If you want
the answer to what methods(self) returns, it's what you'd expect: 'foo' and
'm1'. 

The way someone was using it was to try to randomly call class methods for
test cases. So they had a method (within the test class):


function testShuffle (self)
  methodNames = methods (self);
  for i=1:length(methodNames)
    eval(['self.' methodNames{i}]);
  end
end


Obviously the code does a little more (it actually shuffles) but that's the
just of it. 

Do you have some suggestions of how to get around that?

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