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Re: Re: "unload" a package

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg70861] Re: [mg70836] Re: "unload" a package
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:32:22 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
• References: <200610290338.XAA08522@smc.vnet.net>
• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

I believe there is a "catch" to using CleanSlate:  You have to remember 
to load it BEFORE loading the package(s) that you now want to, in 
effect, unload.

Unfortunately, one only realizes too late that you need to unload a 
package, so you didn't anticipate that need and didn't already load 
CleanSlate.

The function CleanSlate[] does, though, allow some fine control over 
what gets unloaded:  optionally you can specify the contexts you want to 
unload.  Or, using CleanSlateExcept, you can unload everything except 
what's in the contexts you specify.

Bill Rowe wrote:
> On 10/28/06 at 5:21 AM, dimmechan at yahoo.com (dimitris) wrote:
> 
>> I wondered how someone can "UNLOAD" a package without "kill" the
>> Kernel?
> 
>> That is, is there a command that does the opposite of Get or Needs?
> 
> The CleanSlate package found at
> 
> <http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/4718/>
> 
> is quite useful for this purpose
> --
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  • Re: "unload" a package
    • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv@sbcglobal.net>