Re: shadow-proofing a package
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- Subject: [mg42718] Re: shadow-proofing a package
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
say you have stored the result of a 4 week computation in one
of the variables that are removed by the package.
Just load the package and destroy your work without a
warning -- sounds great !
Regards
Jens
Selwyn Hollis wrote:
>
> The following occurred to me as a way to prevent the shadowing problem:
>
> Before BeginPackage["blah`blahblah`"] put
>
> Remove@@( StringJoin["Global`",#]&/@
> Intersection[Names["Global`*"],
> {"name1", "name2", ... for all symbols defined in the package}] )
>
> This seems to work well. But surely there must be some downside to it,
> or else it would already be the recommended way of doing things. What
> am I overlooking here?
>
> -----
> Selwyn Hollis
> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
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