assignment expresion

[Andreas Weingessel]

To: address@hidden
Subject: assignment expresion 

Bug report for Octave 1.94 configured for i586-pc-linux-gnu

Description:
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A matrix assignment of the form
        A(:,1) = some_colum_vector
does not work, when A has not been defined before. This kind of
assignment was possible in previous versions.

Repeat-By:
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octave:1> a(:,1)=rand(3,1)
error: A(I, J) = X: X must be a scalar or the number of elements in I must
error: match the number of rows in X and the number of elements in J must
error: match the number of columns in X
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 1, column 7



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