How to *really* remove a symbol?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg110881] How to *really* remove a symbol?
- From: Yaroslav Bulatov <yaroslavvb at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:59:37 -0400 (EDT)
I occasionally run into a situation where a symbol refuses to get removed. For instance I can do the following ClearAll[appPlot]; Clear[appPlot]; Remove[appPlot]; Information[appPlot]; OwnValues[appPlot] and it displays {}, and "Information" reports nothing for that symbol. But then if I issue "OwnValues[appPlot]" in the next cell, it gets initialized to some value I used for it before and I get {HoldPattern[appPlot] :> .... So far the only thing I found that fixes this is restarting the kernel. Is there any other way of removing this symbol? I'm on Mathematica 7.0.0 for MacOS