[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54576] MATLAB inconsistency when assigning to nonexistent variable using subsref (:)

[Rik]

Update of bug #54576 (project octave):

                Category:                    None => Interpreter            
                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   4.4.1 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Confirmed.  I lowered the severity and the priority since there are
workarounds available (don't use ':' indexing on non-existent variables).

This does seem like something worth modifying since I'm sure people code with
the ':' even when they don't need it.

Could you also run these tests in Matlab


clear all
a(:,:) = [4:6]
b(1:3,:) = [4:6]
c(:) = magic (3)




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