From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jan 11 14:50:12 2005
Subject: iscell(c{:})
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:58:32 -0800

On 11-Jan-2005, Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi> wrote:

| Hi all,
| 
| I noticed the following behaviour:
| 
| > octave --no-init-file
| GNU Octave, version 2.1.64 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
| [...]
| 
| octave:1> c = {1,2};
| octave:2> iscell(c{:})
| 
| *** iscell:
| 
|  -- Built-in Function:  iscell (X)
|       Return true if X is a cell array object.  Otherwise, return false.
|       
|       
| 
| Shouldn't iscell return 0 (or false) when given a cs-list?

In your example, iscell(c{:}) is equivalent to iscell(1,2), and iscell
is defined to work on a single argument.  Should a usage error result
in a return value of zero or an error?

jwe



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