[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45761] Invalid addition of vectors/matrices with incorrect sizes

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #45761 (project octave):

Admins, Please re-open this bug.  I was going to file a similar one.

Since 4.0.0, the "Octave:broadcast" warning has been merged into the
"Octave:language-extension" warning.  It is impossible to issue warnings for
broadcast without issuing them for legitimate language extensions (i.e.,
changes in the set of syntactically correct files).

Automatic broadcasting only provides syntactic sugar over using bsxfun, but
makes debugging much harder.  For example, I frequently deal with lists of
numbers.  I don't care if they are row vectors or column vectors.  Most matlab
functions don't care, so I don't.  However, when I add a column to a row, I
silently get a matrix, which causes an error to appear in an unrelated line of
code, possibly very much later.

The patch to restore the warning is trivial, but I assume it was a policy
decision.  How can I challenge that decision?

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