cell-array returned by anonymous function must be stored in variable before it can be indexed

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Apr-2008, Olaf Till wrote:

| Octave version: 3.0 (on Debian stable, from a package in unstable)
| 
| If an anonymous function returns a cell-array, it can not be indexed
| directly:
| 
| octave3.0:18> a = @ (x) {x}
| a =
| 
| @(x) {x}
| 
| octave3.0:19> a (1){1}
| error: scalar cannot be indexed with {
| 
| but only indirectly:
| 
| octave3.0:19> t = a (1)   
| t =
| 
| {
|   [1,1] =  1
| }
| 
| octave3.0:20> t{1}
| ans =  1
| octave3.0:21> 
| 
| Such issues (having to store in a temporary variable before indexing)
| are typical in Matlab, I saw it as an advantage of Octave that direct
| indexing is possible. Maybe it is possible to provide that feature
| (direct indexing) under all circumstances ...

Please try the following change.

Thanks,

jwe


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