Can we squeeze plot arguments by default?

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi All

It seems like the plotting functions aren't too fond of ND-arrays, which
can be somewhat annoying. Let me give you an example:

        ## Generate 3D data
        T = rand (1, 3, 10);
        
        ## Plot first dimension of 3D data
        plot (T (1, 1, :))

This gives me the following error:

        error: transpose not defined for N-d objects
        error: called from:
        error:   /home/hauberg/Programmer/share/octave/3.3.50
        +/m/plot/private/__plt__.m at line 141, column 8
        error:   /home/hauberg/Programmer/share/octave/3.3.50
        +/m/plot/private/__plt__.m at line 83, column 10
        error:   /home/hauberg/Programmer/share/octave/3.3.50
        +/m/plot/plot.m at line 187, column 9
        
If I 'squeeze' the argument to 'plot', the plot appears just fine.

If I attempt to plot my 3D data

        plot3 (T (1, 1, :), T (1, 2, :), T (1, 3, :), '*')

then I get a figure showing just one point. If I, however, 'squeeze' the
inputs to 'plot3', all my data show up.

So, I was just wondering if we could possibly 'squeeze' input arguments
to plotting functions? Matlab does not seem to do this, so it might
introduce incompatibilities.

Soren