max does not support sparse boolean matrix

[David Bateman]

pbellec wrote:
> Bug report for Octave 3.0.4 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Description:
> -----------
>
> Running MAX on a sparse boolean matrix results in an error message. As MAX
> supports both boolean and sparse matrix, I suspect this type was just
> omitted by the developer and that may qualify for being a "bug". I looked in
> the forum for "max sparse boolean" but I could not find a relevant post. The
> matlab version of MAX supports sparse boolean matrices.
>
>   
Something like the attached should make the behavior the same as the
full types (what does matlab do in this case?). Though I can't push the
patch at the moment as I'm in the middle of a rebuild

D.

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