[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45739] sort 'descend' together with vectors created with the colon operator

[Michael Godfrey]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #45739 (project octave):

Dieter: First, we are all "just users" so do not
worry about that.

Generally, Octave trys to be Matlab-compatible.
The exceptions are cases where an Octave feature
provides sufficient user benefits (that is for you) to
outweigh the value of compatibility.

In this case, as I said, the obvious choice is to modify
sort to convert a range variable to matrix, and thus
work as expected and provide Matlab compatibility.

Thanks for reporting this bug, and you are welcome to
submit a patch which fixes it. The sort function code
is in libinterp/corefcn/data.cc, so C skills are needed
to correct it.


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