octave_value_list and octave_value subsasgn

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Jul-2008, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| I don't know if this is a bug or if I am doing something wrong, that's why I 
| decided to post this email on the help list. I've attached two files and I want 
| to get the same result from the DLD-function as I get from the m-function. If I 
| am using the subsasgn function in C++ then the type of the octave_value is 
| converted to double. What I would expect is that the class of the 
| octave_value_list is still logical like in the m-file function. The attached 
| codes are snipped out of my current implementations.
| 
| If someone might want to know what for I need this then the answer is that I'm 
| currently reworking arrayfun (and maybe cellfun and structfun and spfun later) 
| because I need even more compatibility and performance of these functions and I 
| don't want to go through the list of all class types that are available for an 
| octave_value in C++ but I simple want to use the "(" and "{" assignment.

Then you might as well write it in the scripting language, because you
probably won't get much speedup using subsasgn and octave_value objects.

jwe