Implementation of the rectangle function

[David Bateman]

I needed to implement the rectangle function when porting the MTEX
package. See the URL

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/rectangle.html

However, rectangles in Matlab are fully fledged objects rather than a
patch wrapped in an hggroup. Frankly I don't see what that adds for
Matlab to do it that way. In any case, I needed to keep compatibility
with Octave 3.4.0, so adding a new type of graphic handle didn't seem
the best thing.

I attach my implementation of rectangle here. Should I commit it, or
should we go the Matlab way and make rectangles full objects?

David

rectangle.m
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