Q about ML code

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In my effort to port SeDuMi (I really should get back to my life...), I am
coughing up an error on this function header line:

function [L.L, L.d, L.skip, L.add] = blkchol(L,X,pars,absd)

What could this mean?  I want to change it to:

function [L, d, skip, add] = blkchol(L,X,pars,absd)

Which would then match the example above it, but I am afraid of losing critical
information...  Any thoughts?

Also, is there a quick and dirty way to fix all the short circuit problems? 
Some fancy sed script?  I can't get "--braindead" to stop it from hitting errors
that would be fixed with short circuiting.

3.4.0 on Gentoo.

Tx