Re: cellfun

[Judd Storrs]

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:

I seem to miss something.  Is this normal?

This looks to be a bug in octave's cellfun(). I asked a friend to try your code in a commercial implementation of an octave-similar numeric environment and this was the result:

>> rfh = @(r) feval (r, 'state', 1);

>> rfh(@rand)

>> a = rfh(@rand)

??? Error using ==> rand

Too many output arguments.

Error in ==> @(r)feval(r,'state',1)

>> cellfun(rfh, {'rand'})           

>> a = cellfun(rfh, {'rand'})

??? Error using ==> rand

Too many output arguments.

Error in ==> @(r)feval(r,'state',1)

I think the issue is that octave's cellfun doesn't understand what to do for functions that don't return a value. I would file a bug on the tracker.

--judd