Should asking for diagonals outside of a matrix throw an error?

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Shouldn’t this throw an error instead?

julia> diag(randn(5,5),5)
Float64[]
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It used to, but was removed by v0.7 for needless obstructions: Remove checks in tril, triu, and diag by andreasnoack · Pull Request #28480 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub. FWIW, an empty vector/matrix is an unspecified convention also found in MATLAB and NumPy.