Array indexing issue is original matrix empty

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Mar-2008, David Bateman wrote:

| If a doesn't exist then the assignment
| 
| a(1:10,1) = 1:10
| 
| should succeed and does in matlabR2007b. However this fails in Octave
| 3.0.x and 3.1.x.. I believe the attached patch addresses this.

I applied it.

Thanks,

jwe