Help with indexing compatibility

[Rik]

11/4/16

Could someone try the following code in Matlab and report the orientation
of the output?

+verbatim+
x = [1 2 3];
x([3 2 1]')
x'([3 2 1])
-verbatim-

The rule, in Octave, seems to be that the return shape of scalars and
matrices is the shape of the object used to index them.  But for vectors
which are in turned indexed by a vector, the shape is that of the original
vector instead.  We are probably doing this for Matlab compatibility, but I
thought I would check.

Thanks,
Rik