From maintainers-request at octave dot org Fri Oct 14 02:02:49 2005
Subject: RE: structure discussion
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Billings, Paul" <PBilling at SYSTEMS dot TEXTRON dot com>
Cc: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uOttawa dot ca>, maintainers@octave.org
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:02:38 -0400

On 12-Oct-2005, Billings, Paul wrote:

| I believe you on the comma-seperated list in brackets not working, but
|   S(:).FIELD = scalar
| sure does when S already has the member FIELD.  I don't know the
| implementation, but it certainly does do the job.  I think what we're 
| discussing is that it doesn't give the same results when FIELD is new
| (i.e., not already in S).

I'm not sure whether this was intended.  I'd guess it is an accident
of the particular implementation.

jwe