"complex-nd-array .* real-scalar" broken

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Dec-2007, Thomas Kasper wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.9.17+ configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
|   "a .* b" yields "error: invalid conversion of ComplexNDArray
|   to ComplexMatrix" whenever "a" is a complex-nd-array and
|   "b" a real-valued scalar.
| 
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
|   octave:1> a = rand ([3,4,2]) + i*rand ([3,4,2]);
|   octave:2> a .* rand ()
|   error: invalid conversion of ComplexNDArray to ComplexMatrix
|   error: evaluating binary operator `.*' near line 2, column 3
| 
|   % however:
|   octave:2> a .* (rand () + i*rand ()); % no error
|   octave:3> rand () .* a;               % here neither
|   octave:4>

Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


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