[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56856] class method calls overloaded function instead of basic function

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #56856 (project octave):

Oh, you're right the example did not illustrate the issue with 'x' being
mistakenly replaced by 'this'. It seems like I wrote this short example too
quickly, sorry about that.

Attached is a new version which hopefully works this time. The problem arises
this time with the following code:
  clear x % just making sure x is not yet assigned
  a = test
  x(10) = a

The situation is slightly more elaborated: an object of class 'test' is
assigned onto an empty 'double' array. This rightly triggers a call to
'test.subsasgn(val, idx, rhs)', with parameters:
  val = x
  rhs = a

However, from within the function 'test.subsasgn', the variable 'val' is
suddenly not an empty double array, but rather it has become an object of type
'test', more precisely a '<object array test>'. rhs has remained itself, an
object of type test, more precisely a '<object test>'.

calling 'size(val)' then triggers the function 'test.size' instead of calling
the size function for (empty) double arrays.

(file #47454)
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