a=1; a(1)=[] returns 0x0 rather than 1x0

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Nov-2008,  Garrett Euler wrote:

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| Bug report for Octave 3.0.2 configured for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| Setting the elements in a vector to [] results in a 0x0 matrix rather
| than a 1x0 as is returned in Matlab r14sp1 & r2007b (versions I have
| access to).  The difference here is that Matlab preserves the variable
| as a vector while Octave does not.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| a=1
| a(1)=[]
| 
| 
| >From Matlab:
| --------
| >> a=1
| 
| a =
| 
|      1
| 
| >> a(1)=[]
| 
| a =
| 
|    Empty matrix: 1-by-0

This problem appears to be fixed in the current development sources.

jwe