[Scilab-Dev] list as output in function call

[Antoine ELIAS]

Le 23/04/2019 à 22:50, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Le 23/04/2019 à 22:28, Antoine ELIAS a écrit :
>> Hello Stéphane,
>>
>> Just to be sure, you want that we fill the X-list with all outputs of 
>> ngdrid.
>> Following witch information, size(X) or size(outputs) ?
>> In your cas I suppose that the size is the same.
>> What append if X is not a list or does not have the good size ?
>>
>> Some functions that returns multiple arguments, "look" how many as 
>> expected by caller
>> a = size(x) vs [a,b] = size(x) for example.
>> Does we must provide size(X) to ngrid ?
>
> I am not sure that this would be enough.
> This topic is discussed in the report http://bugzilla.scilab.org/14372 
> and its comments
>
>>
>> Just a question, specific to ndgrid, why do not update the function 
>> to return a list in case of nargout == 1 ?
>
> You likely mean as a unique explicit argout, instead of the varargout 
> "implicit" list.
> Wrapping the result in a list would break a lot of code, and would 
> make addressing the results more complicated for most frequent cases.
>
Absolutely not ;)
I said that only for this specific case "ndgrid". I think that only 
break non-working code.
and varargout is a real list ! ( Do not discriminate ^^ )

> Regards
> Samuel
>
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