field ordering in octave's save/load

[Gunnar Rätsch]

Dear octave team,

I've been using octave a lot recently and am really happy with its  
recent progress. Thanks a lot for your efforts!

I came across one issue today, which isn't really a bug, but just a  
different behaviour compared to matlab, which you may want to fix (at  
least it would help me quite a bit).
I've noticed that when structures are saved and then loaded again in  
octave, then the fields are alphabetically sorted. This is not the  
case in matlab.
I had a piece of code that depended on the ordering of these fields  
and therefore the octave code failed, while the matlab code worked  
just fine (this was a difficult-to-find bug).

What do you think? Do you intend to change the code such that the  
field order is preserved?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Gunnar