Re: Error with pkg.m (== isspace does work with cell arrays anymore)

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Feb-2008, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| so why couldn't we do:
| 
| octave:34> filenames{:}(:)
| error: can't perform indexing operations for cs-list type
| octave:34>
| 
| in the instance where every element of the list is a character?

Because a comma separated list (the result of something like
filenames{:}) is not something that can be assigned a single variable.
Think of it as an argument list, not a single object.

jwe