Re: Matlab-style empty output/input arguments support

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> fre, 29 01 2010 kl. 21:56 +0100, skrev Jaroslav Hajek:
>> Incidentally, is anyone able to check a recent Matlab to find out what
>> is displayed by the command
>> [a, ~, b] = deal (1, 2, 3) % without semicolon
>> ?
>> Is the middle value displayed? If not, then I suppose we really should
>> simply omit the swallowed variables from the result. That's going to
>> be easy to implement as well.
>
>        >> [a, ~, b] = deal (1, 2, 3) % without semicolon
>        ??? [a, ~, b] = deal (1, 2, 3) % without semicolon
>                 |
>        Error: Expression or statement is incorrect--possibly unbalanced
>        (, {, or [.
>
> This is with R2009a. Is that too old a version?
>

Maybe. The feature is listed as news here:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/whatsnew.html

so it may only be in 2009b.

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