Re: "pkg prefix" is noisy

[David Bateman]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> with current tip (3c16e2414564):
>
> ===============================
> octave:1> pkg prefix /tmp
> ans = /tmp
> ===============================
>
> This is due to line 318, 
>
>       local_packages = prefix;
>
> which is later returned. I spent some time looking through my code for a
> forgotten semicolon, until I understood that this comes from pkg.m
> itself. 
>
> So, is the above assignement necessary for something? If not, I'll
> sumbmit a patch to remove it, its information value is zero.
>
>
>   

No I don't think its necessary to make the assignment, or at least only
make it conditional on nargout being greater than zero..

D.



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