[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60861] set command doesn't allow mixed prop/value pairs and cell arrays

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #60861 (project octave):

It would be fairly easy to implement in Octave code.  Currently, set() is
implemented in C++ (libinterp/corefcn/graphics.cc:12962) and it doesn't look
as easy to do this.  The loop in C++ is first over the possible multiple
graphics handles in argument 1 and then it dispatches to the correct set
method based on whether the additional inputs are cellstrs, a struct, or
string/value pairs.

It is probably possible to reverse this and put the for loop over graphics
handles inside the decode of one of the three cases of the switch statement. 
After that one would need to remove the arguments that were used from args
variable and wrap everything in a while loop.

The read-only special cases of set()


 -- VALUE_LIST = set (H, PROPERTY)
 -- ALL_VALUE_LIST = set (H)


would need to be pulled out entirely and probably put at the top of the
function.


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