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Re: if I open multiple files in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg64155] Re: [mg64124] if I open multiple files in Mathematica
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 19:09:07 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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As you have discovered, definitions (rules) are associated with a 
Mathematica session and NOT with a Mathematica notebook.

One work-around is to have use a different Mathematica Context for each 
notebook.  A context is essentially a "namespace".  See the Mathematica 
Book's materials for details.

Here's a simple example.  You have two notebooks.  In one you evaluate 
the following input cells:

Begin["This`"]
x=100;
End[]

If you evaluate any cells in that notebook after evaluating the Begin 
cell and the x = 100 cell, but before evaluating the End[] cell, x will 
take the vaule 100 there.

In the other notebook you evaluate input cells:

Begin["Other`"]
x = "hello";
End[]

If you evaluate any cells in that notebook after evaluating the Begin 
cell and the x = "hello" cell, but before evaluating the End[] cell, x 
will take the vaule "hello" there.

But:  After you have evaluated both End[] cells, now no matter in what 
notebook you do further evaluations, if you refer to x you will just get 
the symbol x and neither of those two values.  But if you want to use 
one of the values from within those context, you qualify x with the 
context name:

   This`x
100
   This`x + 23
123

   Other`x
"hello"
   StringJoin[Other`x, ", world!"]
hello, world


Jackie wrote:
> The variables in different files will be cross-referenced. I don't like
>  this feature, What should I do ?
>> thanks.
> 
> 

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    • From: "Jackie" <Shuangshuang.Zhou@gmail.com>