[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49444] tilde output argument requires comma for parsing

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49444 (project octave):

I would lean towards addressing this in documentation. To me it seems natural
that tilde is a prefix operator, and can only be used in this special mode as
an argument placeholder when it's followed by a comma.

What does Matlab do?

This example with sort is a little obtuse because the two output arguments are
the same (both the sorted array and the indices are [1 2]). Something like
this demonstrates a little more clearly


>> [~, ~, x] = deal (1, 2, 3)
x =  3
>> [~ ~ x] = deal (1, 2, 3)
parse error:

  invalid left hand side of assignment

>>> [~ ~ x] = deal (1, 2, 3)
         ^



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