[Scilab-Dev] strcat([],"")~=[]+"" ? <= Re: A+[]

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 09/03/2016 20:18, Serge Steer a écrit :
> Up to Scilab 5.5.2, we had
>> strcat([],"anything") == "" // as well as
>> [] + "anything" == ""
>> The fact that both expressions give the same result is correct, since 
>> they mean exactly the same operation.
> Not exactly the same meaning strcat(strarray,"anything") adds 
> "anything" between each element of
> strarray strcat("foo","blabla") ->"foo" and not "fooblabla"
> So it is ok that strcat([], "anything") returns [] as there is no 
> elements.

Thank you Serge for your confirmation.
You are right: both expressions do not mean exactly the same thing, and 
even without respect to the []+ "trick", the current behavior of 
strcat([],"")=>"" is not consistent. => reported there: 
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/14453

Samuel

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