MATLAB Language MATLAB Best Practices Use assert
Example
Matlab allows some very trivial mistakes to go by silently, which might cause an error to be raised much later in the run - making debugging hard. If you assume something about your variables, validate it.
function out1 = get_cell_value_at_index(scalar1,cell2)
assert(isscalar(scalar1),'1st input must be a scalar')
assert(iscell(cell2),'2nd input must be a cell array')
assert(numel(cell2) >= scalar1),'2nd input must have more elements than the value of the 1st input')
assert(~isempty(cell2{scalar1}),'2nd input at location is empty')
out1 = cell2{scalar1};
