Re: bug or compatibility issue?

[Francesco Potortì]

>When C is not given prepad (and postpad) should do
>
>cl = class(x);
>C = eval([cl "(0)"]);
>
>to define the zero padding.
>
>and when C is given the final vector should be sent to the class of C
># before return
>cl = class(C);
>x = eval([cl "(x)"]);

I think that the final class should be the one that results from the
promotion rules of Octave.  For example, if C is logical and and the
vector is uint32, the result should be uint32.

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