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