Add seealso strings to list- related functions.

Søren Hauberg soren at hauberg.org
Wed Jan 16 13:00:52 CST 2008


ons, 16 01 2008 kl. 00:50 -0600, skrev Muthiah Annamalai:
> I think such compatibility, IMHO, is quite useless. What can we do with
> a half-baked assign operator? I dont see much returns for actually going
>  and implementing such a feature. Who knows, this maybe a side-effect
> of the Matlab-parser.
I see some sense in this behaviour. If I write

a = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

then the interpreter would assign a the value 1, and treat 2,3,4,5,6,7
as six separate expressions. If I now define a cell array that contains
the values 1 to 7,

c = {1,2,3,4,5,6}

Now, c{:} gives me the following comma separated list: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. If
I write

a = c{:}

in an un-patched Octave I would get an error even if this expression is
conceptually the same as the first expression. So, why should these
expressions be different?

Søren



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