second arg of size must be a scalar

[Francesco Potorti`]

Is this a limitation inherited from Matlab or just an oversight?

In 3.1.54:

octave> size(ll)(4:5)
ans =

   59   18

octave> size(ll,[4:5])
warning: implicit conversion from real matrix to real scalar
ans =  59

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