problems with "aoutoload" in 3.1.55

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Fri May 22 12:08:23 CDT 2009


On 20-May-2009, Carlo de Falco wrote:

| BTW the same example seems to show also a bug in get_help_text:
| 
| ------------------------------------------------------
|  >> help myfun
| `myfun' is a function from the file /Users/carlo/Desktop/autoloadbug/ 
| myfun.m
| 
|   MYFUN: this version of myfun is defined in an m-file
| 
|  >>  [text, format] = get_help_text (myfun)
| warning: implicit conversion from scalar to string
| text =
| format = Not found
|  >>

I don't think this is a bug.  You haven't passed a function name to
get_help_text.  Instead, you are passing the result of calling myfun
to get_help_text.  So it is as if you did

  get_help_text (0)

jwe


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