[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37535] "cos 1" vs "cos (1)"

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: "cos 1" vs "cos (1)" 
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wed 10 Oct 2012 13:30:38 UTC
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: sawatts
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.6.2
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

This is odd behaviour which I would not expect from the interpretor:

Missing parentheses after (buildin) function call are not an error:

1> cos (1)
ans = 0.54030
2> cos 1
ans = 0.30059

In line 2, the return is the cosine of the ASCII value of '1', or 49.

I would have expected line 2 to generate an error at least.




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