Octave includes support for two different mechanisms to contain arbitrary data types in the same variable. Structures, which are C-like, and are indexed with named fields, and cell arrays, where each element of the array can have a different data type and or shape. Multiple input arguments and return values of functions are organized as another data container, the comma separated list.
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