Re: Octave

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> To: c. <address@hidden>
> Cc: eugenio.pariani <address@hidden>; address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Octave
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2014, at 4:23 PM, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>  On 13 Apr 2014, at 21:39, eugenio.pariani <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>> 
>>>  Hello
>>> 
>>>  I’m a beginner in the use of the SW Octave ed. for windows 3.8 and I 
> have a short question which could be related to my no-experience.
>>>  I tried to start introducing this simple command
>>> 
>>>>>  input (“a number”)
>>>  a number100  (of course 100 was written by me)
>>>  ans = [](0×0)
>>>>> 
>>>  I was expecting (reading the manual):
>>>>>  input (“a number”)
>>>  a number100
>>>  ans = 100
>>>>> 
>>>  Where is my mistake? Would you help me?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Thanks in advance
>>>  Eugenio
>> 
>>  I guess you should assign the input value to a variable:
>> 
>>>>  a =  input ("a number ")
>>  a number 100
>>  a =  100
>>>> 
>> 
>>  c.
> 
> Matlab behaves as Eugenio expected.
> 
>     input ('a number')
>     a number100
>     ans =   100
> 
> Bug report?
> 
> Ben
> 


An additional piece of info - using octave-3.6.4:

"
octave:1> input ('a number')
a number100
ans = [](0x0)
octave:2> disp(input ('a number'))
a number100
100 
"
, i.e. wrapping 'input' into 'disp' does display he number.

I don't know what it means from Octave developers point of view though.

Regards,
  Sergei.