Matlab check for negation of empty matrix

[Rik]

3/27/14

Could someone run the following code under Matlab?

x = [];
if (~x)
  disp ('branch 1');
else
  disp ('branch 2');
end

There have been two issues with this construct in the last two days. 
Coming from a scripting background like Perl or Python, I would expect []
to evaluate as false and '~' to negate this to true.  But, it seems that
~[] is still [] which means isempty should really always be used instead of
the negation operator.

--Rik