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Re: ClearAll error message

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg92371] Re: ClearAll error message
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:08:24 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <gbnpep$pr3$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

ClearAll["A"]

??

Regards
   Jens

carlos at colorado.edu wrote:
> Just out of curiosity.  The following ClearAll works as expected.
> 
>   name=Symbol["A"]; ClearAll[name];
> 
> But this elicits an error message:
> 
>   ClearAll[Symbol["A"]];
> 
> Why?  A non-standard argument evaluation?
> 
> [The message came deep from the bowels of a complicated code
> to find tensor invariants. A module received a string from which to
> build related symbol names with that string as root]
> 
>