Re: varargout{:} = func() ?

[forkandwait]

>   v = cell (expected_outputs, 1);
>   [v{:}] = func (...);
> 
> should work in any recent version of Octave.  

It does.

>   clear v;
>   [v{:}] = func (...);

Hmm.  But they said it would on the newsgroup ;).  To be fair, they may have 
assumed that one would know pre-sizing the cell array.
 
> will not work, because Octave can't determine nargout for the function
> call.  I expect this is also true in Matlab.

I guess there is no notation in case one doesn't know the number of expected 
outputs?  I am just curious at this point.