[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53858] Octave crashes when expanding an array of a sub-structure viewed by Variable Editor

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #53858 (project octave):

                  Status:               Confirmed => Ready For Test         

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Follow-up Comment #10:

I pushed the following changeset on stable and merged with default:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/90f7c563e706

I'm not sure whether this is the best fix, but it avoids the infinite error
loop.  Maybe the evaluator should not be able to return c-s lists packaged
inside octave_value objects.  But I think that's a much bigger project for
another day.

Another option, inside the variable editor itself, would be to notice that the
expression evaluates to a c-s list and try to modify the original display of
a.b.e to be a.b.e(1) instead.  But I'm not sure how to do that.  It might also
require knowing that  we are transitioning from a scalar struct to a struct
array and I'm not sure how to determine that at the point the failure is
detected.



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