[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36658] acceptance of "global a = b"

[Torok Levente]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #36658 (project octave):

@Rik
Sorry, I was offline for about a week time.
As I see John have pointed out the heart of the bug. Thanks.

I don't know how matlab handles global statement but I should give priority to
their solution.

If you don't see this that much important, then I'd suggest the a = 3 pattern,
too, since "a = 2" case would be very misleading.

The other reason I would suggest  "a = 3" is that.
I usually collect all the interactively written commands in a text editor and
run it as a script, later.
Usually, I run it many times with slight modifications and  if it has a global
statement at the beginning it would cause me a trouble since the second run
would have effect on the value of the variable.

@jwe
I would vote on 13.
What would make you think of 42, other than universe and everything?


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