Re: test palette

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

Ethan Merrit wrote:
> Simpler example of breakage:
>
> gnuplot>  set title offset 1,1
>           undefined variable: offset
>
>
> What has happened is that whenever the keyword "title"
> is seen, the parser calls try_to_get_string(), which
> then chokes if the next token on the line is a keyword
> rather than a string or an expression.
>
> I don't know when or how this broke - possibly at the
> time of Harald Harders' addition of the generalized
> "offset" keyword for all string positions.
>
> I'm not sure yet where to fix it.

I think try_to_get_string() should check the expression before
evaluating it (using isstring() and friends :-)

I'm quite surprised it doesn't do so far.  This bug must have been
there for quite a long time...

I'm short of time at the moment, so I haven't really checked this
suggestion.


Juergen