Re: Variables Within Homemade Functions
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- Subject: [mg69607] Re: [mg69590] Variables Within Homemade Functions
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:57:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Easy: enclose your definition of the function in Module and include the variable(s) at issue in the first argument (a list) where the local variables are declared. Gregory Lypny wrote: > 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) > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Variables Within Homemade Functions
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca>
- Variables Within Homemade Functions