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Re: Re-virginating Manipulates?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg114299] Re: Re-virginating Manipulates?
• From: Herman Kuun <oomkoos1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:05:01 -0500 (EST)

The ` (backquote) stands for global.

For instance to list all global symbols:-

?`*

will do it.

Best

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:20 PM, AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote:

> At 2:48 PM +0200 11/29/10, Herman Kuun wrote:
>
>> One suggestion:-
>>
>> Remove["`*"]; demo_a   (* Cell one *)
>>
>> Remove["`*"]; demo_b (* Cell two *)
>>
>> :
>> :
>> Remove["`*"]; demo_last (* Cell last *)
>>
>> Best
>> Herman
>>
>
> Thank you!
>
> I had tried
>
>        Remove["Global`*"];  demo_a   (* Cell one *)
>
> and now I guess I (sort of) understand why this didn't do what was needed.
>
> [Still wondering a bit, however, why the syntax isn't
>
>        Remove["*`*"];   OR  Remove["$Current`*"];
>
> or something similar?  Note that (so far I can see) the Context Tutorial
> does NOT give any illustration of the syntax "`*"  (or `*) as a valid
> syntax.]
>