Re: cell{1:5}=1 not working for me!!!

[Francesco Potortì]

>> Interestingly, global vectors must also be initialized first
>> and then set:
>>
>>  global v(1:6)=9    % this will fail
>>
>> global v2
>> v2(1:5)=7       % this will work
>
>I'm not exactly sure what your plan is, but you can do something like
>
>    global c = num2cell(repmat(1,5,7));

What the original poster said does not refer to cells.  He said that you
can initialise a vector, but not a global vector, at least using the
simple syntax he mentions.  In fact:

octave> v1(1:3)=2
v1 =
   2   2   2
octave> global v2(1:3)=2
parse error:

  syntax error

>>> global v2(1:3)=2
             ^

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