Re: Compatibility considerations of "clear"

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/14/2013 02:16 PM, Philipp Kutin wrote:

[...]

We aren't stupid, you don't have to spell out every little detail.  We 
know what a workspace is, y'know?

I think the attached patch will fix the behavior for clear without any 
arguments.

Is the current Octave behavior for functions also wrong?  Given the function

  function foo ()
    persistent x
    if (isempty (x))
      disp ('x is not initialized');
      x = 1;
    end
  end

what do the following commands do?

  foo
  foo
  foo = 1
  foo
  clear foo
  foo
  clear foo
  foo

In any case, it looks like the documentation for clear in Octave no 
longer matches its behavior with regard to clearing functions.

jwe

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