Re: Vector assignment problems

[Ben Price]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:40:15AM +0200, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Ben Price <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I see that
> >> [a,b] = size([1,2])
> > works, but
> >> [a,b] = [1,2]
> > gives ``error: invalid number of output arguments for constant expression''
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> When multiple targets are given on the lhs, the rhs needs to produce
> at least as many values. [1,2] does, however, produce a single vector
> value. You can either do:

Ah, let me check if I understand:

size([1,2]) will return 1 or 2 arguements, depending on context, but
[1,2] is always 1 vector?

Cheers