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Re: original meaning of System` functions

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  • Subject: [mg115393] Re: original meaning of System` functions
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:35:50 -0500 (EST)

On 1/9/11 at 2:20 AM, hemmecke at gmail.com (hemmecke) wrote:

>Or is there a reliable way to hide the source code of a package?

>Suppose someone has redefined

>Unprotect[SetAttributes]; SetAttributes[_,_]:={}
>Attributes[SetAttributes] = {Protected, Locked}

>before loading the package code. The source code would be available
>just by typing

>??F

>where F is an exported function of the package.

It is possible to distribute Mathematica code so that the source
code cannot be accessed in any meaningful way and be usable
within Mathematica. Take a look at ReadProtected and Encode.



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