Re: Order of Evaluation

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 8/19/19 2:56 PM, address@hidden wrote:

y = @(x) H = h(x), f(H) + g(H); % also wrong if in brackets

I thought it would work to create a 'fake' compound statement:

y = @(x) if true  H = h(x), f(H) + g(H) end;

but this somehow fails, as if the conditional was not evaluated---the function does not return anything.

Given that  "if true 123 end" returns 123, and "y = @(x) 123 ;" returns a function returning 123, why does

y = @(x) if true 123 end ;

fail to return anything? (Octave 4.2.2 on Linux)

In any case, https://octave.org/doc/v4.2.0/Anonymous-Functions.html suggests that anonymous functions aren't universally useful and recommends simply using function handles.