anonymous function cell array syntax error vs. matlab
Ian Rickard
inio at inio.org
Wed Jul 29 16:54:52 CDT 2009
Bug report for Octave 3.2.2 configured for i386-apple-darwin8.11.1
Description:
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* When a cell array is provided as the output of an anoymous
function, commas must be used to delimit the members along
rows. Matlab allows commas or spaces, and octave allows
both as well when the cell array is not an anonymous
function body. Examples:
Example:
This expressions is valid syntax in both octave and matlab:
@(){1, 2}
This expression raises a syntax error in octave, but works
in matlab:
@(){1 2}
Note that the following two exressions work in both, and produce
identical results:
{1, 2}
{1 2}
Repeat-By:
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* evaluate an expression:
a = @(){1 2}
and observe that it causes a syntax error.
Repeat in matlab and observe success.
Configuration (please do not edit this section):
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uname output: Darwin maybe.local 9.7.1 Darwin Kernel Version
9.7.1: Thu Apr 23 13:52:18 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.14.1~1/RELEASE_I386
i386 i386
configure opts: 'CC=gcc -arch i386' 'CPP=gcc -arch i386 -E' 'CXX=g++
-arch i386' 'F77=i386-apple-darwin8.11.1-g95' 'CFLAGS=-O3 -fforce-addr
-march=i686 -mfpmath=sse,387 -mieee-fp -msse3 -msse2 -msse -mmmx
-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -I/tmp/deps-i386/include'
'CPPFLAGS=-O3 -fforce-addr -march=i686 -mfpmath=sse,387 -mieee-fp
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-I/tmp/deps-i386/include' 'CXXFLAGS=-O3 -fforce-addr -march=i686
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/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -I/tmp/deps-i386/include' 'FFLAGS=-O3
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'--host=i386-apple-darwin8.11.1' '--without-x' '--enable-shared'
'--disable-static' 'host_alias=i386-apple-darwin8.11.1'
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CPICFLAG: -fPIC
C++ compiler: g++ -arch i386, version 4.0.1
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