[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52851] parse error at command line or in scripts "duplicate subfunction or nested function name"

[Marshall]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #52851 (project octave):

I can see the point of not allowing sub-functions or nested functions from
having the same name, which is why I didn't even try to address this bug in
relation to a function file. However, I still have two arguments for why this
is desirable behavior for scripts:

1) If I can manually type or paste something in in at the command line and it
works, I should be able to run that exact same code from running it as a
script to run it all at once. Running a script (F5) is better then highlight
and F9, especially for a large script because of the delay probably due to
printing and executing every line of code individually. This argument supports
allowing syntax like examples 1, 3, and 4 below, but not of 2. (consistency)

2) This is one place where I feel that octave syntax is far better than
Matlab, and it would be disappointing to lose some of its benefit. In these
cases I am basically using the repeated function declarations as multi-line
anonymous functions.
For example:

if  true
    function computation()
        disp('compute 1.1')
        disp('compute 1.2')
    endfunction    
else
    function computation()
        disp('compute 2.1')
        disp('compute 2.2')
    endfunction
end

computation()


 is analogous to:


if  true
    computation = @() disp('compute 1');
else
    computation = @() disp('compute 2')
end

computation()



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