permute of a scalar

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Apr-2004, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:

| If 
| 
| a=1; b = a'; 
| 
| is legal, then I think so should be
| 
| a=1; permute(a,[2,1]);
| 
| that effectively does the same thing. However, as permute is not
| defined for scalar values we get a gripe_wrong_type_arg. The patch
| below adds the permute function for scalars. However, it doesn't check
| the validity of the arguments and just returns the scalar value
| itself. The Matlab version does check the indexing vector when called
| with scalars, but this doesn't make all that much sense.

OK, I applied this patch.

Thanks,

jwe