[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60487] wishlist: set unknown property error should name property

[Nicholas Jankowski]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60487>

                 Summary: wishlist: set unknown property error should name
property
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: nrjank
            Submitted on: Fri 30 Apr 2021 01:23:04 PM EDT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Nicholas Jankowski
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 6.2.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

just a usability request for better user feedback. request that when set
issues an unknown property error, it would echo the string that it was passed
triggering the error.  

see for reference bug #60482 where hist misinterprets a char array input as a
plotting property and sending it to bar & set.  the equivalent of 

error('set: unknown property %s', property)

would provide better feedback to the user, but it's a compiled function so
that would require whatever the c-code equivalent is.  Also recognize that
changing error message format would require parsing the codebase for BISTS
checking for that error message to make sure it doesn't trigger a bunch of
false-test errors.




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