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Re: Reading external files

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg5874] Re: [mg5689] Reading external files
• From: willwb19 at idt.net (puddintaine)
• Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 01:31:24 -0500
• Organization: IDT
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 26 Jan 1997 11:40:04 -0500, gooding at mail1.sas.upenn.edu (Edward A.
Gooding) wrote:
>In:<<junk.nb [loads the notebook junk with the definition x=1]
>In:x
>1
>In:Clear[x];
>In:<<junk.nb;
>In:x
>x
>This continues until the kernel is rebooted. Does anyone 
>know what is going on here?
Follow up-
In:Clear[x]
(which clears the definition of x)
with-
In:Remove[x]
(which removes the symbol x from the current context)

Also, check your help files and/or documentation to find out about the
subtleties of "context"
They will do a better job explaining it than I can.