global variables

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2009, John W. Eaton wrote:

| The problem is with the use of the name "grid", which is Octave is
| treated specially by the parser because it is a "command" name and may
| be used like
| 
|   grid on
| 
| intead of
| 
|   grid ("on")
| 
| But it is a bug, because in this context, Octave should not be
| recongnizing grid as a command name.

I checked in the following change for the current sources.  I don't
know whether this patch will apply cleanly for earlier versions.

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1652e39b934e

jwe