[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55210] isvarname does not check length of string against Matlab namelengthmax()

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #55210 (project octave):

Why should Octave's namelengthmax function return 63?  It seems to me that
Matlab code that uses namelengthmax in Octave should not be limited to 63
characters just because matlab has that limit.  Instead, I think we should
have namelengthmax return the real limit in Octave.  Or is that a problem
because there is code that does something like


myvars = char (n, namelengthmax);


and then copies variable names into the array?  If so, then I think we should
just ignore namelengthmax inside isvarname and close this report as "won't
fix".

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