Fixed dirty hack in parser to distinguish between serial numbers and pointers.

[ginac.git] / ginac / parser / parser.cpp

diff --git a/ginac/parser/parser.cpp b/ginac/parser/parser.cpp
index 32802316be4d60754bc8c5f908782edd3aba03ae..d639bfe1465f1f693c627c3ec03c7ddf610f7403 100644 (file)
--- a/ginac/parser/parser.cpp
+++ b/ginac/parser/parser.cpp
@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@ ex parser::parse_identifier_expr()
        }
        // dirty hack to distinguish between serial numbers of functions and real
        // pointers.
-       ex ret;
        try {
-               ret = GiNaC::function(reinterpret_cast<unsigned>(reader->second), args);
+               GiNaC::function f(reinterpret_cast<unsigned>(reader->second), args);
+               return f;
        }
        catch ( std::runtime_error ) {
-               ret = reader->second(args);
+               ex ret = reader->second(args);
+               return ret;
        }
-    return ret;
 }
 
 /// paren_expr:  '(' expression ')'