RE: Variables Within Homemade Functions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg69595] RE: [mg69590] Variables Within Homemade Functions
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:57:06 -0400 (EDT)
Greg, What is a Module for? David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Gregory Lypny [mailto:gregory.lypny at videotron.ca] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Hello everyone, How can I ensure that variables in my home made function do not conflict with variables with the same name outside the function? Say I have a variable, t, whose value in my notebook is 17. I've brought in a function from another notebook, myFunction, that contains a variable named t, and in running the function, t will take on a value. Unfortunately, both t's are the same. Is there any way to make the t within the my function a local variable just like index counters in the Table and Do functions? Regards, Greg t=17 myFunction[x_]:=(t=someOtherValue; rest of function here)