Date: Feb 12, 2013 4:35 PM
Author: Bruno Luong
Subject: Re: Making a square matrix from two vector

It's not possible to explain better than Steve.

Just one thing:
  
> "If you specify nonscalar arrays, MATLAB interprets j:i:k as 
> j(1):i(1):k(1)."
> 

This is still incomplete to explain the result of:

a = 1i:10-2i

Discussed previously in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/261665

Bruno