mtlb_zeros — Matlab zeros emulation function
Matlab and Scilab zeros behave differently in some particular cases:
With a scalar input: Matlab zeros returns a n x n matrix while Scilab returns a 0.
The function mtlb_zeros(A) is used by
mfile2sci to replace zeros(A) when it was not
possible to know what was the input while porting Matlab code to Scilab. This function will
determine the correct semantic at run time. If you want to have a
more efficient code it is possible to replace mtlb_zeros calls:
If A is a scalar
mtlb_zeros(A) may be replaced by zeros(A,A)
If A is not a scalar
mtlb_zeros(A) may be replaced by zeros(A)
Caution: mtlb_zeros has not to be used for hand coded functions.