Subscripted assignment issue

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 23-Mar-2008, dbateman wrote:
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> | Moritz Borgmann wrote:
> | > 
> | > 
> | > When the left-hand side of a matrix assignment is subscripted, MATLAB 
> | > extends the matrix to fit the right-hand side. Octave does not, but 
> | > instead fails with an error message.
> | > 
> | > 
> | 
> | Fixed already. See the message
> | 
> | http://www.nabble.com/Array-indexing-issue-is-original-matrix-empty-to16156127.html
> 
> I think this still fails:
> 
>   octave:1> a = [];
>   octave:2> a(1,:,:) = ones (2,2)
>   error: A(IDX-LIST) = X: X must be a scalar or size of X must equal number of elements indexed by IDX-LIST
> 
> jwe


Humm, then my patch didn't do the right thing here as I let the
assignment suceed only if the dim on the LHS wasn't a colon. Should we
just let everything thing through at the current test and trap
dimensioning error later? I'm not sure of the best and compatible way to
treat this..

D..