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Re: clear all inside function
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: clear all inside function |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:17:34 -0400 |
On 10-Jun-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:12 PM, John W. Eaton<address@hidden> wrote:
| > What is supposed to happen with "clear all" inside a function?
| >
| > Given the claim that the program posted here
| >
| > https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2009-June/014713.html
| >
| > works in Matlab, it seems it should not be clearing functions. I
| > guess this works in 3.0.x, but with the current sources, and a .m file
| > containing the following
| >
| > function main ()
| > clear all
| > sub
| > end
| > function sub ()
| > 'this is sub'
| > end
| >
| > I see
| >
| > octave:2> main
| > error: `sub' undefined near line 3 column 3
| > error: called from:
| > error: /scratch/jwe/build/octave/main.m at line 3, column 3
| >
| > jwe
| >
|
| Matlab explicitly says that
| "All functions and global variables are cleared in both the function
| workspace and in your base workspace"
If that's correct, then how does the above work in Matlab? Can
someone else verify that it does in fact work?
jwe