Add seealso strings to list- related functions.

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Jan-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| 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?

Even in Matlab, they are still different.  In the first case, you get

  >> a = 1, 2, 3

  a =

       1


  ans =

       2


  ans =

       3

But in the second, with the c-s list, you get

  >> c = {1, 2, 3};
  >> a = c{:}

  a =

       1


If these were really treated as equivalent, then you should also see
the ans = 2, ans = 3 outputs in the second case.

Also, while

  [a, b, c] = c{:}

"works",

  [a, b, c] = 1, 2, 3

does not.

But hey, you pointed out an incompatible thing that was easy to fix, I
felt like fixing it, and doing so is a preemptive strike against a
future complaint about how Octave sucks because it does not copy this
particular strange feature of Matlab.

OK, by now I've definitely spent too much time on this issue.

jwe