Re: gnuplot reports addition in a fn as an error

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 01 December 2012, pl...@pi... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yet more is in the silly errors file.  Gnuplot is will to multiply be 
> 1.4 but not add it !
> 
> gnuplot>  f1(x)=1.4*cos(x/15.0)
> gnuplot>  f1(x)=1.4+cos(x/15.0)
>                    ^
>           ';' expected
> 
> 
> In the terminal, the caret is aligned under the digit "4"

This bug was fixed by a patch to CVS on 31-October-2012
        * src/parse.c (parse_reset_after_error) src/parse.h src/util.c:
        Error exit from inside try_to_get_string() left the internal flags for
        string parsing in an incorrect state.  Provide a reset routine.

It could only occur following a separate error in a command containing
a mis-quoted string constant, which is why it went unnoticed for a while.

	Ethan