Difference between accessing cell elements using curly braces and parentheses

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Think of cell array as a regular homogenic array, whose elements are all cells. Parentheses (()) simply access the cell wrapper object, while accessing elements using curly bracers ({}) gives the actual object contained within the cell.

For example, 

A={ [5,6], 0 , 0 ,0 };

Will look like this:

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The syntax of making an element equal to [] with parentheses is actually a request to delete that element, so when you ask to do foo(i) = [] you remove the i-th cell. It is not an assignment operation, but rather a RemoveElement operation, which uses similar syntax to assignment.

However, when you do foo{i} = [] you are assigning to the i-th cell a new value (which is an empty array), thus clearing the contents of that cell.

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