From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Mon Dec 12 04:31:10 1994
Subject: OCTAVE: Bug - Report
From: nowottny at mathematik dot uni-stuttgart dot de (Dietrich Nowottny)
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 11:31:02 +0100


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Octave - Version: 1.0

Machine:          IBM Risc 6000

Operating System: AIX 3.2.5
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BUG creating matrices
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I think I have found a bug which occurs creating matrices. In my example
the commas which separate the elements of the vector may NOT be omitted !
(This error did occur in octave-0.82, too.)

Octave, version 1.0.  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> computer
rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5
octave:2> a=1, b=2
a = 1
b = 2
octave:3> v=[a, b, (a+b)/2]
v =

  1.0000  2.0000  1.5000

octave:4> v=[a b (a+b)/2]
error: index invalid or out of range for scalar type
error: evaluating index expression near line 4, column 7
error: evaluating binary operator `/' near line 4, column 14
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 4, column 2
octave:5>

I am using a binary distribution of Octave, so this should not be a
compilation error.

I'm looking forward for your answer. Thank you very much in advance !

Dietrich Nowottny

P.S. Thank you very much for solving my problems some days ago so quickly !