Re: Re: variable "K"? (Really strange behavior . . . )
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- Subject: [mg69228] Re: [mg69182] Re: variable "K"? (Really strange behavior . . . )
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:39:19 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm not sure if this will work properly, but the first time you use K in a notebook, you could type Global`K. Giving the full context should force the creation of K. Also, as long as Global occurs sooner in the context path than System (and I think that's true), then your method should work. (I think) By the way, your description of the way notebooks should operate sounded really ... futuristic?? almost like one notebook doing the job of what several files in a file system currently do. I wanted to say that Some of the functionality you desire is available through the use of XML - specifically its output functionality to multiple standard file formats. The cool thing is, with a little make or ant scripting, generation may be done automatically. Anyway, here are some possibilities. http://chris.chiasson.name/temp/AES/Engineering_Optimization.pdf http://chris.chiasson.name/temp/AES/Engineering_Optimization.html (*if your browser has MathML capability and the right fonts, try the one below*) http://chris.chiasson.name/temp/AES/Engineering_Optimization.xhtml here is the XML (use save as text to read it) http://chris.chiasson.name/temp/AES/Engineering_Optimization.xml Note this was all an updated version of: http://chris.chiasson.name/Engineering_Optimization/ch01.html On 9/1/06, AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote: > At 10:00 AM -0500 9/1/06, Chris Chiasson wrote: > >They probably didn't protect K because it is usually only associated > >with some type of automatic output - such as an integration dummy > >variable. Even then, it usually appears in a unique form like K$12312. > >I think it would be okay for you to assign K a value if you wanted to. > > Oh, you can assign a value to K all right, and it seems to function > just fine as a "normal" Mathematica variable or symbol. > > The problem arises if it's your practice (as it is mine) to start > your notebooks with Remove["Global`*"] as the first Input cell, and > then define various functions and modules in the immediately > following cells, carefully avoiding assigning any numerical values to > any symbols or parameters in those functions and modules until after > all those definitions have all been completed. > > Many of the symbols or parameters in those functions or modules will, > of course be given numerical values further down in the notebook, > when you run specific cases, but starting the notebook with > Remove["Global`*"] means (or *should* mean) that if you run the > notebook once, then re-run it from the top, the initial functions and > modules will not be contaminated by numerical values assigned in the > previous run. > > The problem is, K is apparently *not* cleared out by > Remove["Global`*"], and no warning of this is given; and hence if > you've used K as a variable in these initial definitions, the value > of K from the previous run is "hard-wired" into the initial > definitions on the following run -- whether that's what you intended > or not. > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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- Re: variable "K"? (Really strange behavior . . . )
- From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>
- Re: variable "K"? (Really strange behavior . . . )