parsing problem. Bug?

[Andy Adler]

I've had the following parsing problem. I get the same
error in octave 2.0.9 and 2.1.2.

if you try to define a vector
  
  octave:69> a=b=c=d=1;
  octave:70> [a b (c+d)]
  error: invalid vector index = 2
  error: evaluating index expression near line 70, column 5

If you bracket the b the answer is wrong
  octave:70> [a (b) (c+d)]
  ans = 1  2

You need to give everything brackets
  octave:71> [(a) (b) (c+d)]
  ans =
    1  1  2
  
I realize that the right_thing_to_do (tm) is use commas to
separate elements, but I think this behaviour is a bug.

PS. In matlab you get
  >> [a b (c+d)]
  ans = 1     1     2

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