[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59899] colon operator returns incompatible class for integer inputs

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #59899 (project octave):

In the current development version sources (what will become Octave 7) we
already support integer ranges.  The changes were made in a series of
changesets around 5 months ago refactoring the way ranges are handled,
beginning with af361aea02e0.

The rules for deciding the result type are in the get_colon_op_type function
in ov.cc.

My understanding was that unless the colon operator is used with a class or
classdef object, then all arguments must be the same type or mixed with double
values.  So if you have a range that is 


uint8(10):-1:uint8(1)


the result type would be uint8.  Is that not what Matlab does?




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