cat with empty matrix

[David Bateman]

Phil Fong wrote:
> cat with an empty matrix behaves differently in Octave 3.0.3 than in Matlab 7.3.
> In Octave:
> octave:18> cat(2,[],1)
> error: octave_base_value::reshape (): wrong type argument `scalar'
>
> In Matlab:
>   
>>> cat(2,[],1)
>>>       
> ans =
>      1
>
> Obviously, in actual use the empty matrix is usually a variable rather than a literal empty matrix.
>   
Try the attached patch.. Jaroslav can you apply this to 3.0.3+ as well?

D.


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