assignment to structure array

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-May-2008, Gregor Beck wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 3.0.0 configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
|   * see below
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| octave:1> [s([1,3]).a]=deal(1,3);
| octave:2> assert(s,struct('a',{1,[],3}))
| error: assert (s,struct ("a", {1, [], 3})) expected
| {
|   a =
| 
|   (,
|     [1] =  1
|     [2] = [](0x0)
|     [3] =  3
|   ,)
| 
| }
| but got
| {
|   a =
| 
|   (,
|     [1] =
| 
|     (,
|       [1] =  1
|       [2] =  3
|     ,)
| 
|     [2] = [](0x0)
|     [3] =
| 
|     (,
|       [1] =  1
|       [2] =  3
|     ,)
| 
|   ,)
| 
| }

This problem will be fixed in Octave 3.2.  See the following thread
for more details:

  https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-January/007715.html

Thanks,

jwe