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Re: Remove["Global`"] ??

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg47967] Re: Remove["Global`"] ??
• From: AES/newspost <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 01:08:48 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <c72eaf$pj$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <c72eaf$pj$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> I am guessing you are trying to remove all symbols from the Global` context. 
> If so, should have typed Remove["Global`*"] instead of what you did type.
> 

I'm in the habit of putting  Remove["Global`*"]  as the first expression 
in the first evaluatable cell of my notebooks, so that reevaluations of 
the entire notebook produce a (more or less) clean start.

In earlier versions of Matheamtica, this did not produce an error.  In later 
versions it produces an error on the first evaluation of a freshly 
opened notebook.  The workaround is to use  x; Remove["Global`*"]  
instead.