[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58780] 'source' throws unexpected syntax error.

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

Update of bug #58780 (project octave):

                Category:                    None => Interpreter            
                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   5.2.0 => 6.0.90                 

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Follow-up Comment #4:

Thank you for your bug report.  I can confirm the issue for Octave 6 and 7.


__octave_config_info__.hg_id
ans = 713398d4a3c3


I do not think that it is super important to be fixed, but the interpreter
acts a little weird here.  I cannot reliably say when "source" really parses
the file and when not.  Maybe the documentation could be more verbose about
it.

https://www.octave.org/doc/v5.2.0/XREFsource.html

e.g.


Parse and execute the contents of "file", where "file" is an absolute or
relative path to a file.


In this case any call to "source foo" should error.

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