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

[Francesco Potortì]

>>>The first fact is easy to understand: you can assign to a cell with
>>>any of the operators () or {}.
>>
>> Is there an historical reason to this, I suppose, or more simply a
>> Matlab compatibility reason.  I find this ambiguity confusing.  Is there
>> a recommended style?
>
>What exactly is the ambiguity with () and {}? They're different things.
>
>Indexing with {} gives you cs-lists, possibly with only one element.
>Indexing with you () gives you subcells. You can always assign a
>subcell of compatible size to a subcell, but you can only assign to
>cs-lists as long as they are one-element.
>
>If you think the following needs to be better written, please let me
>know, and we can reword it:
>
>    
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Indexing-Cell-Arrays.html

One addtion to my previous mail.  If I have a cell array of matrices,
like 

s = cell(5);
for i=1:5; j=1:5
  s(i,j) = NA(100,1);
endfor; endfor

What is the clean/preferred way of setting elements inside an array?
For example, I want to set even-indexed elements of the first array to
5.  This one works:

s{1,1}(2:2:100) = 5;

But this looks like a trick to me.  Maybe using cellindexmat?  A simpler
way? 

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