figimage broken?

Trying this from the interactive prompt with v0.87.1 causes a Traceback:

a=rand(100,100)
figimage(a)

It's possible I've done something stupid, but imshow works, so I don't think so. I suspect this may have been broken for a while. I haven't tried 0.87.2 (because I can't be bothered with the new numpy/scipy/matplotlib version interdependency).

Gary R.