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Re: Unclearable global variables?
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pkienzle |
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Re: Unclearable global variables? |
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Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:43:11 +0000 |
I agree that 'save file' should save all variables, including
globals.
IIRC, at the time I wrote edit 'save file v' would save all
globals in addition to v, and this is the behaviour I was
questioning. It does not anymore, and the current
behaviour is what I expect.
- Paul
> address@hidden wrote:
>
> >This method has a couple of advantages:
> >
> >1) the value doesn't get stored during save like
> >global values do (did?)
> >
> >2) the values are available without having to
> >say 'global value'
> >
> >The second could also be considered a disadvantage,
> >but in that case namespace support could be added
> >to octave to address it.
> >
> >-Paul
> >
> >
> >
>
> Paul,
>
> If mlock marked the symbol table entry as "eternal" the variable would
> be considered as a builtin a wouldn't be saved, and you wouldn't have to
> say "global var" either. Not saving the variable is not necessarily an
> advantage though in my opinion, I'd prefer is such user eternal
> variables were a new variable attribute that had the properties of
> builtins but were saved... So the load/save code would need to be
> modified slightly, so that it could mark such an attribute...
>
> Regards
> David
>
>
>
>
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