Doubled colon in LOADPATH not expanding to default path

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Is it normal that a doubled colon in the middle of LOADPATH does not
expand to the default path (as documented in the in kpathsea manual)?  I
mean: when LOADPATH starts (ends) with a colon, the default path is
prepended (appended) to its value, but if LOADPATH is equal to
e.g. "a::b", the default path does not get expanded between "a:" and
":b".

I am using Octave 2.0.13 on a Linux 2.0.34 system, if that matters.

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