Re: How to *really* remove a symbol?
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- Subject: [mg110928] Re: How to *really* remove a symbol?
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:04:21 -0400 (EDT)
On 7/10/2010 2:59 AM, Yaroslav Bulatov wrote: > 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 > > Do you have dynamic content in your notebook? It's possible that a Manipulate or some other piece of dynamic content is reinitializing your variable. Carl Woll Wolfram Research