[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47874] error/warning fail when only argument looks like an error/warning ID

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #47874 (project octave):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
              Item Group:                    None => Matlab Compatibility   
                  Status:                    None => Need Info              
                 Release:                   4.0.2 => dev                    
        Operating System:               GNU/Linux => Any                    
                 Summary: error() fails when string contains a colon  =>
error/warning fail when only argument looks like an error/warning ID

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Confirmed here, but not sure what the right behavior should be.

Do you have Matlab to test what it does in this scenario? The error/warning ID
parsing is meant to be Matlab compatible.

Also note that you can easily work around this by including spaces or other
characters that are forbidden in an error/warning identifier.

It could be argued that calling error or warning with a string that is
actually meant to be an identifier and missing the message is an error, which
is what is reported now.

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