: (Matlab operator) Colon

## Matlab/Scilab equivalent

Matlab | Scilab
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## Particular cases

Using colon with empty matrices:

  In Matlab if almost one operand is an empty matrix, then result is an empty matrix what gives an error message in Scilab.

Using colon with NaNs and Infs:

  In Matlab if almost one operand is an empty matrix, then result is a NaN what make Scilab returning an error.