bug or compatibility issue?

[Francesco Potortì]

I would expect prepad to retain the class of the argument.  However,
when extending a logical array, this is converted to double:

octave> class(prepad([false true], 3, false))
ans = double

This is Octave 3.6.2 on Debian.

Is this a bug?

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