Query or set the internal variable that controls whether diagonal matrices are stored in a special space-efficient format.
The default value is true. If this option is disabled Octave will store diagonal matrices as full matrices.
When called from inside a function with the "local"
option, the
variable is changed locally for the function and any subroutines it calls.
The original variable value is restored when exiting the function.
See also: disable_range, disable_permutation_matrix.
Package: octave