[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62552] In-place operator spacing works for 'i' and 'j', but not other variable names

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #31, bug #62552 (project octave):

Yeah, it is long.

Thanks for catching the edit error.

Do you think what I wrote helps with understanding the issues?  It seems there
is a lot of confusion about this feature.

It appears that where Octave is doing


if (is_var && is_word_list_cmd ())
  error ("%s used as variable and later as function", nm.c_str ());


Matlab is now doing something like


if (is_word_list_cmd ())
  {
     // Search for function only since this appears to be a command-style
function call.  If a function is found, call it with remaining arguments.  If
not found, error with "unrecognized function or variable" message.
  }


That explains their error message.


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