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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57297] empty cell index returns an error
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Lars Kindermann |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57297] empty cell index returns an error |
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Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:45:57 -0500 (EST) |
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #57297 (project octave):
Ok, I see the history of this change now.
But it is surprising for a user if code that was running for years suddenly
fails. It took me quite a while to figure out that the error was not caused by
the content of the variable but due to changed syntax. Shouldn't such changes
go through a deprecation
period first and generate a warning only for some time?
Or at least there could be a hint in the error message, something like:
error: empty index expressions {} are invalid now, use {:} instead
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