Re: problem with structure assignment

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:43 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> The following bug was reported before 3.2.2
>
>  https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-July/008949.html
>
> Looking at the hg log for the release-3-2-x archive, it looks like the
> patch was applied before version 3.2.2, but I still have the problem
> in the copy of 3.2.2 that I built.
>
> Examples that cause trouble are
>
>  a.b{1}.c = 1
>
> or the one given in the original report
>
>  s.a(1).c.d = 123
>
> (with a and S previously undefined).  My copy of 3.2.2 gives the error
>
>  error: can't perform indexing operations for <unknown type> type
>
> in both cases.
>
> Looking at the Octave 3.2.2 sources from ftp.octave.org, the patch
> appears to be there.
>
> Both work correctly for me in the current development version.
>
> Is it just me?  Do these examples work properly for other people with
> 3.2.2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe

I haven't pulled in a few days, and I get the same error you did.

octave:1> b=1
b =  1
octave:2> s.a(b).c.d=123
error: can't perform indexing operations for <unknown type> type

I've just pulled and started the make. If anything changes, I'll reply  
again.

Ben