josdejong/mathjs

Evaluating 'help(not)' throws SyntaxError

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#1,905 opened on Jul 3, 2020

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Description

For some reason, evaluating help(not) throws an error. For example:

// Works fine
console.log(math.evaluate('help(and)'));

// "SyntaxError: Value expected (char 9)"
console.log(math.evaluate('help(not)'));

Please see this jsfiddle example.

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Research direction
Investigate the parser to see why 'not' is treated differently from 'and' when used as argument to 'help'.
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