Octave Classes Usage

[Pablo Daniel Pareja Obregon]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use octave class function to define my own structure to hold 
properties and data. I searched for examples on the web, and what I found so 
far is something like this:

@foo/foo.m:
function obj = foo()
   obj.name = "foo" ;
   obj = class(obj, "foo") ; 

However, when invoking x = foo() from the command line typeinfo(x) returns 
"class" when it should be "foo". After creating x, if I try to access any 
fields (for example issuing the command x.name), I get the following error:

error: invalid index for class

Finally, if I try to modify any field in x (x.name = "John"), octave crashes. 
with the following message:

panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
Segment fault

I am currently using Debian Testing, and my octave version is 3.2.4-4.

Am I using the class in the correct way? Is it a bug? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Pablo