Bug: class field modified by reference
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There is a major bug in Matlab in which the field of a class is modified when passed as an function argument but not requested as an output if the calling function modifies the value internally. In the minimal example below: b.value is not the same before and after calling test.
b.value = 10;
b.value,
a = test(b);
b.value
function a = test(b)
a=1; b=b.value*10;
end
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Steven Lord
on 1 Jun 2018
I tried this with a very simple class and it worked as I expected.
It sounds to me like b is an instance of a handle class. If that's the case, the behavior you described is correct as described in the "Handle Objects Modified in Functions" section on that documentation page (assuming that in your test function you assigned into the value property of the b object rather than overwriting the variable inside the function.) See the attached example. I expect the last line printed when you run that code to be "ans = 100".
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