Re: A bug in containers.Map

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 4:35 AM Kai Torben Ohlhus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/19/20 4:46 AM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> >     containers.Map(['foo';'bar';'baz'], [1,2])
> >
> >       * In octave it creates the map with one key (the first row "foo").
> >         This key has a value of [1,2]. if you tried to access the map
> >         with a key that equals another row ("bar" or "baz"), it will
> >         raise an error that there is no such key.
> >       * In MATLAB online (I don't have access to the PC version), it
> >         raises an error that the number of keys and values is not the
> same.
> >
> >
> > trying it out in Matlab 2020a:
> >
> >  >> containers.Map(['foo';'bar';'baz'], [1,2])
> > Error using containers.Map
> > The number of keys and values must be the same.
> >
> >
> > generally, it's not an error for Octave to do things that Matlab
> > doesn't.  I don't know enough about this function to know what it should
> > do and if allowing creation of the map _should_ be an error. But if that
> > is problematic, it could be a bug worth reporting.
>
>
> Abdallah, thanks for the observation.  I opened a bug report about it
> [1].  It should not be too difficult to fix it.  Do you want to give it
> a try (short project)?
>
>
Sure, I will work on it.

cheers,
Abdallah