global variables

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Dec-2009, Naveen Garg wrote:

| I am trying to declare global variables from c.
| However, the following fails:
| 
| int parse_status;
| eval_string("global gvar", false, parse_status);
| 
| I get:
|  error: eval: invalid use of statement list
| 
| It seems to work if i put
| global gvar
| in a file called file.m
| and then run
| int parse_status;
| eval_string(source("file.m"), false, parse_status);

Why don't you avoid the eval and just use the set_global_variable
function?  That's what it is there for.

| Also, is there something akin to set_local_value (similar to
| set_global_value)?

No.  Why should there be a function like this?

jwe