From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Oct 24 10:54:20 1995
Subject: error in assignment of multivalued functions
From: Ferdinand Schinagl <ferdi at roentgen dot hlphys dot uni-linz dot ac dot at>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:54:01 +0100

I'm using actual (v1.1.1) binary distributions of octave:

  i486-linux
  hppa1.1-hp-hpux9.01

and both versions produce the error message,

a = 1
error: element number 2 undefined in return list
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 8


when I try to evaluate:

octave:1> function [x,y,z]=f()
> x=1;
> z=2;
> end

octave:2> [a,b,c]=f()

This code is said (see the documentation) to produce:

a = 1
b = [](0x0)
c = 2