Why does Matlab ignore the first input always?

Question

Like this for instance:

z = input('Enter z ')
t = input('Enter t ')
y = input('Enter y ')

It always prompts for t and y and ignores z.

I tried mixing them a bit and putting y in the front and so on and even changing the names of the variables, but it always ignores the first one and asks for the others. Why is that?

Answer 1

It's a bug of FreeMat, see here and here (it runs well under MATLAB).