min/max with NaN values

[Frederic Jourdin]

Hi all !
if I run this:

a= [    1, %nan;    4,    4];
b= [ %nan,    3;    3,    6];
c= [    2,    2; %nan, %nan];
min( a, b, c)

Scilab returns the following matrix:
NaN  NaN
NaN  NaN

while the expected matrix should be:
1  2
3  4

Why?

thanks
Fred

Scilab 5.3.0.beta3 on Linux