[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55249] function ones does not always return a valid matrix

[Anders Lennartsson]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #55249 (project octave):

Thanks for the quick response.

After reading the manual, no what I reported is not a bug. 

Although after some investigation, it would be useful if such ranges by
default were printed in a way as to indicate that they are ranges instead of
being printed as expanded row vectors. There are no visible indications of a
difference between the following:
octave:15> ones(1,4)
ans =

   1   1   1   1

octave:16> [1 1 1 1]
ans =

   1   1   1   1


Moreover, why does not zeros(1,n) return a range? It may be less useful but
the inconsistency this creates seems a bit dull at first glance. For example,
zeros(1,4)+1 is identical to [ones(1,4)] 
and ones(1,4)-1 is not identical to zeros(1,4) although visibly
indistinguishable.






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