clear in functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Apr-2007, Kim Hansen wrote:

| Hi all,
| 
| I just read in the help text for clear that:
|      This command may not be used within a function body.
| 
| I have been using clear in my functions in order to make it easier to
| detect bugs, and I have not seen it cause any problems.  What is the
| problem with using clear inside functions?

I think it is OK to use clear inside a function body now and that it
only caused trouble in very old versions of Octave.  I removed that
line from the doc string.

Thanks,

jwe