Strange eval behaviour with cells

Hi there!

When trying to pass cell values to varargout, I noticed a strange behaviour of the eval function:

A = {1,2,3};
B1 = { A{1:3} }
B2 = { eval( 'A{1:3}' ) }

returns:

B1 =

      [1] [2] [3]

B2 =

      [1]

However,

eval( 'A{1:3}' )

returns

ans =
     1

ans =
     2

ans =
     3

So I ask myself, where do the remaining cells get lost? In contrast,

A{1:3}
eval( 'A{1:3}' )

[B2, B3, B4] = A{1:3}
[B2, B3, B4] = eval( 'A{1:3}' )

generate equal outputs respectively.