[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50756] display of objects in cell array is suppressed

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #50756 (project octave):

So if a class intentionally overrides both disp and display, or doesn't
override disp, is it correct that we want display(c), where c is a cell array
containing an object, to call disp(x) on the object, not display(x)?

The result of this decision is that the screen output of c may appear
different from the screen output of c{1}.

I'm pointing this out because both the @pyobject class (in pytave) and the
@sym class (in the symbolic package) have both disp and display overrides
which give slightly different output. In both cases display does call disp,
but it adds a bit of information about the _type_ of the variable in addition
to its text representation.

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