[Scilab-Dev] bug or feature

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 22/03/2019 à 14:12, antoine monmayrant a écrit :
> Le 22/03/2019 à 11:10, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Do you think that the following behavior is a bug or a feature:
>>
>> --> x=1
>>  x  =
>>
>>    1.
>>
>>
>> --> x([])=[1,2,3]
>>  x  =
>>
>>    1.
>>
>> ?
>>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> For me, it kind of makes sense not to change anything to X when 
> assigning a value to X(range) with range an empty matrix (the 
> assignment concerns an empty subset of X).
> But I don't know whether this is coherent with other features (or 
> bugs!) of Scilab.
> For comparison, I tried this under octave and julia and they both 
> raise an error.
> More specifically, octave complains about the size mismatch between 
> the lhs  (0x1) and rhs (1x3).

To me, such a complain looks rather relevant.

Samuel