[Scilab-users] What is a valid function name in Scilab?

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Thanks for your quick answer.
I think I was not really clear in my post: I am not looking for general 
good practices in naming your functions or variables, but for the 
actual, hard-coded limitations in Scilab for function names.
But your answer was useful as the info I was looking for is available at 
'help names'.
Thanks again,

Antoine

On 16/04/2013 10:12, Rakshith Nayak wrote:
>
> In general, rules applicable to variable names are applicable to 
> function names as well.
> For example:
> *Avoid builtin function name
> *No characters other than an underscore are allowed.
> *keep the names short and crisp
> *provide documentation when you write functions, so that neither 
> others or you, won't be having a problem using it, after a a while.
>
> On Apr 16, 2013 1:38 PM, "Antoine Monmayrant" 
> <antoine.monmayrant at laas.fr <mailto:antoine.monmayrant at laas.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     I just lost a couple of hours trying to figure out what was wrong
>     with a function I just wrote that seemed perfectly fine but could
>     not be interpreted by scilab.
>     I finally understood that you cannot define a function with a name
>     that starts with a number.
>     The problem is that the error reported is not helpful at all
>     ("Incorrect function at line 1.") and that neither 'help function'
>     nor 'help functions' clearly indicates this limitation.
>     I think I'll report a bug for that, but before doing so I would
>     like to know if any of you knows exactly what are the limitations
>     for the name of user define functions in Scilab and where this
>     information can be found in the documentation.
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>     Antoine
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