octave crashes with irregular argument to cat()

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Thorsten Meyer <thorsten.meyier at gmx.de> wrote:

> From: Thorsten Meyer <thorsten.meyier at gmx.de>
> Subject: octave crashes with irregular argument to cat()
> To: bug at octave.org
> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 7:32 AM
> Hi,
> 
> while playing with the concatenation functions I came
> across another bug in octave built from the
> mercurial tip:
> 
> octave:1> cat(2, "test", 100,
> {"bli", "bla"})
> terminate called after throwing an instance of
> 'std::bad_cast'
>   what():  std::bad_cast
> panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
> save to `octave-core' complete
> Aborted
> 
> In octave 3.0.1 (debian) it says:
> octave:1> cat(2, "test", 100,
> {"bli", "bla"})
> error: concatenation operator not implemented for
> `string' by `cell' operations
> octave:1>
> 
> regards
> 
> Thorsten
> 
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Also fails for me on 3.0.3:

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octave:1> cat(2, "test", 100, {"bli", "bla"})
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_cast'
  what():  std::bad_cast
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
".

Regards,
  Sergei.