[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59950] exist function

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #59950 (project octave):

I agree, "Undocumented" doesn't always translate to "unreasonable" and/or
"unstable"/"unreliable"; this very bug report is an example.

On topic:

>> exist ('table({''foo'',''bar''})',table())
Error using exist
The optional second input to exist must be 'var', 'builtin', 'class', 'dir' or
'file'. 
>> 


so I suppose Matlab first checks if arg #1 is a string or char vector but
perhaps ignores contents, only then checks if arg #2 makes sense, maybe only
then goes back to contents of arg #1.
Doe that make sense?


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