From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 29 10:39:13 2003
Subject: use of "()" with lists = seg fault
From: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
To: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:38:39 +0100

I know "()" is not for use with lists but I get the following with 2.1.52

  octave:1> a = list(1,2)
  warning: list objects are deprecated; use cell arrays instead
  a =
  (
    [1] = 1
    [2] = 2
  )
  octave:2> a(1)
  panic: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
  attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
  warning: save: wrong type argument `list'
  save to `octave-core' complete
  Segmentation fault

Surely an error message would be better ;-)... I think there is probably a
missing subsref function for lists, though I haven't checked.

D.

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