Re: inconsitency in behavior of 'size'

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Przemek Klosowski <address@hidden> wrote:

On 03/10/2018 07:21 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

"The syntax for slicing values out of a comma-separated list looks a lot like matrix concatenation" - which is obfuscation.

I.e. [foo, bar] should always mean the same. The situation is really bad - see copy-paste of a session:

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another example that highlights one of Mike's explanations:


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>> fzero(@sin, 1)

ans = 0

>> [a,b] = fzero(@sin,1)

a = 0

b = 0

>> [a,b,c,d] = fzero(@sin,1)

a = 0

b = 0

c =  1

d =

  scalar structure containing the fields:

    iterations = 0

    funcCount =  4

    bracketx =

       0    0

    brackety =

       0    0

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quite obviously, [] as a multi-element list assignment operator cannot require that it form a valid matrix, as the return values don't even have to be the same type, yet alone the same size.