[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49072] assigning double arrays to cell arrays: matlab incompatibility?

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49072 (project octave):

Yes, c(1,:)={rand(1,2)} works in matlab, and assigns a 1x2 double to each
individual cell.

Confusing about the assignment c(1,:) = rand(1,2) is that, by analogy to
assigning to a numerical array, an unsuspecting user might expect c(1,1) and
c(1,2) to contain a single double.

For that end you need c(1,:) = num2cell(rand(1,2)).

Maybe a warning would be nice to have, when assigning a double array to cell
of same size

warning: assigning array of double to cell of same size. Did you mean to use
num2cell?

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