Re: Unclearable global variables?

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Mar-2005, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| The following should work but I haven't tested it:
| 
| function r=var(x)
|   mlock
|   persistent z = 'default';
|   if nargin, z=x; end
|   r = z;
| end
| 
| 
| You can reference it as if it were a variable, e.g., 
| 
|     y = var;
| 
| but to set it to a new value you need to do
| 
|     var('value')

Maybe we should extend mlock/munlock/mislocked to allow "locking" of
global variables?

jwe



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