mode returns a wrong answer for row vectors

[David Bateman]

David Bateman wrote:
> David Bateman wrote:
>
>   
>> However, while looking at the way this failed, it points to another
>> issue. Consider the indexing case
>>
>> t = ones(3,3,3);
>> t(:,4)
>> t(true(3,1),4)
>>
>> which with both Octave 3.1.x and MatlabR2007b return [1;1;1], where as
>>
>> t(false(3,1),4)
>> t([],4)
>>
>> both return a 0-by-1 matrix in MatlabR2007b, but fail with an indexing
>> error in Octave. My solution to this was to use the short_freeze
>> indexing function even if one of the indices are empty. Is there a
>> reason not to do this?
>>
>>     
>
> Ok, I can see why. If the trailing dimension is empty, my patch can't
> work. Alternative fix attached..
>
> D.
>   
and yet a third version as this really should include some tests to
avoid a reversion..

D.


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