Shadowing warning on every command for function in +package directory

[Richard Crozier]

Dear All,

I think I have noticed an issue with incorrectly warning about shadowing 
of function in +package directories in the dev build (I am going to use 
+package to refer to Matlab style package directories, as opposed to 
Octave packages).

If I have a function in +package I get a shadowing warning against 
functions of the same name in the global namespace. In recent builds 
this is issued on every single command. I have done the following to 
test this.

create a directory call +testpckg

Created a function file 'inverse.m' in this directory (there is an 
Octave built-in inverse function). This new function should be in the 
testpkg namespace and not clash with the built-in.

The directory containing +testpckg is added to the path on startup by 
running genpath on a higher level directory. I have checked that the 
directory +testpckg is not in the path, but the directory containing it is.

On startup I get the warning:

warning: function .../mfiles/octave-test/+testpckg/inverse.m shadows a 
built-in function

This isn't so bad, but as I mentioned, I now also get the same warning 
with every single command entered at the Octave prompt. On another 
computer I have a build of Octave which displays the warning once on 
startup only, so I think this behaviour has changed relatively recently 
(within a few months).

hg id reports 63374982750b tip @

Is any of this known or should I submit a bug report? Can anyone else 
reproduce it?

Regards,

Richard


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