> It is kind of a mess, really. Honestly, that statement applies to pretty much any part of MATLAB unless the behaviour is nailed down by existing mathematical

> It is kind of a mess, really. Honestly, that statement applies to pretty much any part of MATLAB unless the behaviour is nailed down by existing mathematical or engineering specifications - and I'm talking as someone that likes MATLAB overall. Mathworks tries a bit to polish and paint it as a coherent whole, but it's patchwork of things built upon and stuck to the sides of the existing structure, optimizing towards a particular kind of "pragmatism" than towards any kind of elegance.