Re: Cannot "run" a function file in dev branch.

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/08/2017 02:17 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:00:10 -0700, siko1056 wrote:
> > Rik and Mike you are right. The ´run´ command is documented for script files
> > only, even for Matlab [1,2]. Since I worked with both I (miss)used it for
> > calling setup scripts and functions (which are initially not on the load
> > path), the latter without arguments. It was convenient and still works in
> > Matlab R2017a (even though [2] says the opposite) and I noticed it by
> > running my own test suite yesterday that "nothing" happened anymore. I don't
> > think it's worth to be compatible to an undocumented Matlab (bug/feature?).
>
> Sorry if I wasn't clear, I do think it's worthwhile restoring this
> behavior even though it's undocumented.

I pushed a fix here:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/3cace95ce563

When I made the earlier change, I forgot about the compatibility issue 
and was thinking that it only made sense to source scripts.  I didn't 
notice any comments about it (so I added some in this changeset) and no 
tests failed after my changes (it would be nice to have some; would 
someone like to add a few?).

jwe