Function keeps repeating in Octave - plot

Question

My code is written in a file "plot.m".
If I put the following code in "plot.m", when I call plot("20%"), the Octave GUI will keep opening a new window with a new figure indefinitely.
function X = plot(folderName)
X = 0;
data = ([folderName, "\\summary.txt"]);
NUM_SURVIVED = data(1);
NUM_DATA = size(data)(1)-1;
FINAL_WEALTH = data(2 : NUM_DATA);
%plot FINAL_WEALTH
figure;
plot(1:numel(FINAL_WEALTH), FINAL_WEALTH, '-b', 'LineWidth', 2);
xlabel('x');
ylabel('FINAL_WEALTH');
end
However, if I put the following code in "plot.m" and run it, the program works as intended and will plot data from "summary.txt".
data = ("20%\\summary.txt");
NUM_SURVIVED = data(1);
NUM_DATA = size(data)(1)-1;
FINAL_WEALTH = data(2 : NUM_DATA);
%plot FINAL_WEALTH
figure;
plot(1:numel(FINAL_WEALTH), FINAL_WEALTH, '-b', 'LineWidth', 2);
xlabel('x');
ylabel('FINAL_WEALTH');
Any idea what I am doing wrong in the first section of code? I would like to write it as a function so that I can call it multiple times for different folder names.

Answer 1

When you call plot from the function plot, you get endless recursion. Rename your function and its file.

Answer 2

Just adding to Michael's answer, if you really wanted to name your function as "plot" and override the built-in plot function, but still wanted to be able to call the built-in plot function inside it, this is actually possible to do by using the builtin function to call the built-in version of plot. Your code would then look like this:
function X = plot (folderName)
% same code as before
figure;
builtin ("plot", 1:numel(FINAL_WEALTH), FINAL_WEALTH, '-b', 'LineWidth', 2);
xlabel ('x');
ylabel ('FINAL_WEALTH');
end
Obviously, whether it's a good idea to overload such a core function in the first place is an entirely different discussion topic. (Hint: don't!)