[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52632] [octave-forge] (generate_html) can't run demos with variable declarations

[Oliver Heimlich]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52632>

                 Summary: [octave-forge] (generate_html) can't run demos with
variable declarations
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: oheim
            Submitted on: Sun 10 Dec 2017 01:38:59 PM CET
                Category: Octave Forge Package
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Oliver Heimlich
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

It is no longer possible to create HTML documentation with demos, which
include variable declarations.

In html_help_text.m the demo code is run with `eval` in a subfunction
`get_output`, which no longer allows to create variables (see bug #51698).

Error message during generate_package_html:

ans = can not add variable "x" to a static workspace


In the doctest package, this problem could be solved by moving the eval'ing
function into a separate m-file, see
https://github.com/catch22/octave-doctest/issues/167




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