I recently stumbled upon the following behavior in MATLAB R2022a:

```
>> a = sparse(1,2,1)
a =
   (1,2)        1

>> b = sparse(2,1,18)
b =
   (2,1)       18

>> a+b
ans =
   (2,1)       18
   (1,2)        1
   (2,2)       19

```

The presence of the (2,2) element with value 19 is quite puzzling. Intuitively, I would have expected to get either a zero (no element) or an error indicating that the vectors' sizes are not compatible. I couldn't find an explanation for this behavior in the documentation.

So, is this a bug or a feature?