Returned value from function as a global variable

[LUK ShunTim]

Hi,

I had some matlab code which uses global variables to allow common
access to returned values from functions. It appears that octave doesn't
allow such behaviour. Here's a short function which produces an error in
octave.

function [v]=t_global_f(x)
    global v;
    v = sin(x);
endfunction

octave:1> x=0:0.1:pi;
octave:2> v=t_global_f(x);
error: can't make function parameter `v' global
error: evaluating global command near line 6, column 1
error: called from `t_global_f' in file
`/home/0/00work/octave/00snippets/t_global_f.m'
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 2

Is there any plan to implement the same behaviour in octave?

Regards,
ST
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