ignoring line prefix

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Jun-2009, Przemek Klosowski wrote:

| GNU Octave, version 3.0.5 has this weird behavior that the obsolete usage breaks PS*()
| functions:
| 
|     PS1=""
| warning: PS1 is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS file or type `news' for details
| PS1 = 
|     PS1("    ")
| error: invalid matrix index = 32

This happens because you created a variable called PS1 which hides
the built-in function PS1.  Maybe the warning should also say
something like

  By assigning a value to PS1, you will create a variable which will
  hide the built-in function PS1.

?

jwe