[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36375] path order after path(p)

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #36375 (project octave):

What does Matlab do about system paths? Can you overwrite those? You can in
Octave. When you use path or addpath and you attempt to add a directory
already in the path, that directory gets moved to the top of the list. So when
you do


path(p)


the following happens for each x in p: 

1) If x is already in the path, it gets moved to the top of the list (and its
status as system path or not gets preserved).
2) Else, add x to the top of the list.

So when you do path(p) and p contains system paths, the non-system paths will
get moved to the bottom.

Is this a bug only because Matlab doesn't do this? Does this really have to be
the same as Matlab?

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