Re: using setfield with an object (getting an error)

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 2, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Carnë Draug wrote:

> 2011/10/2 Carnë Draug <address@hidden>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I get the following error when using setfield to set the value of one
>> of the fields if the structure is an object (I actually get the first
>> 2 lines repeated many times before getting the last error)
> 
> Oh, and this recursivity I believe it's caused because setfield will
> eval 'object.fieldname = value' which will go back to the class
> subsasgn that called it on the first place.
> 
> Carnë

It has been a while since I looked at the details of Octave's m-file objects, 
but what happens if you replace ...

            inPar = setfield (inPar, idx.subs, rhs);
 
... with ...

            inPar.(idx.subs) = rhs;

Ben