From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Nov 12 19:00:42 1995
Subject: subtle matlab incompatibility
From: Jack Mott <jackm at pmafire dot inel dot gov>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 18:00:06 -0700 (MST)

If A is a column vector with N elements, and B is a row vector with
the same number of elements, the A=B is invalid in both matlab and
octave.  However, I have noticed that A(2:N)=B(1:N-1) seems to work
in the commercial version of matlab but not octave.  Since mixing
row and column vectors is bad form, I fixed my matlab code so that is
is compatible with octave.  I just thought that people might like to
know about the inconsistency.

Charles Mott