[Scilab-users] Extraction of unusual fields of custom mlist in Scilab 6

[Pierre Vuillemin]

Hi all,

I am encountering some difficulties with overloading in Scilab 6, and 
I'm wondering if this is a bug or not.

Consider the following example,

a = mlist(['mytype']);
b = mlist(['myothertype']);
function out = %mytype_e(varargin)
    var   = varargin($);
    field = varargin(1);
    disp(typeof(field))
    out = [];
endfunction
a(b);

It defines two objects 'a' and 'b' of types 'mytype' and 'myothertype'. 
The extraction is overloaded for 'mytype' and displays the type of the 
field that is meant to be extracted.
At the end, I try to extract 'b' from 'a'.

In Scilab 5.5, 'b' is actually passed to the overloading function and 
'myothertype' is displayed by 'a(b)'.
Scilab 6 behaves differently and 'field' in the overloading function is 
a string equal to 'myothertype'.


Best regards,

Pierre