[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33982] Use of tilde (~) operator to ignore outputs is not supported

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #33982 (project octave):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This feature was added in Octave 3.4.x.  You marked that as the version in the
bug report form, but your example shows that you are using Octave 3.2.4.  I'm
closing this report since the feature is already implemented in the current
Octave release.

Also, there is rarely a need to ignore trailing output arguments unless your
function does something different based on nargout.  In the specific case you
show, you might as well simply write


a = example (1, 2);


since the effect is the same.

OTOH, it is often more useful to write things like


[~, b] = example (1, 2);


since then the unneeded output is not stored in the scope of the function call
even if it is computed by the function.

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