failure in reversed xdir or ydir axes

[Eric Chassande-Mottin]

> set(axes,"ydir","reverse");
>
> As I understand it, the "axes" call creates a new axes object and
> inserts it into the current figure, "set" then sets the attribute,
> which works, but you now have two axes in the figure, but only one of
> them with ydir reversed. That's what I see.

that makes sense. I thought that axes was returning an handle
to the current axes.

sorry for the false alarm, eric.