Re: Quit versus Clear["Global`*"]
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- Subject: [mg121226] Re: Quit versus Clear["Global`*"]
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 07:05:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Your experiment makes Remove look useful (possibly), but here's one that
does not:
ClearAll[f]
f[x_] := Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}] SetAttributes[f, Listable]
Remove[x]
?? f
Remove[x] cripples f without mentioning it, which I'd call a very ugly
side-effect.
Bobby
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:05:26 -0500, Murray Eisenberg
<murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> Try the following little three-part experiment. In each part, the last
> step tells you what Mathematica now knows about the symbol f.
>
> f[x_] := Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}]
> SetAttributes[f, Listable]
> Clear[f]
> ??f
>
> f[x_] := Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}]
> SetAttributes[f, Listable]
> ClearAll[f]
> ??f
>
> f[x_] := Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}]
> SetAttributes[f, Listable]
> Remove[f]
> ??f
>
> On 9/4/11 4:12 AM, AES wrote:
>> In article<j3u7r6$a88$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>> Murray Eisenberg<murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> First, Clear, whether for a single object or an entire list of objects,
>>> does not remove their Attributes, e.g., just their values. You might
>>> want ClearAll instead.
>>
>> And how do either of those differ from Remove?
>>
>
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