[Scilab-users] clc() icon with additional functionality !!?

A Khorshidi akhorshidi at live.com
Sun Feb 2 14:43:20 CET 2014


Samuel GOUGEON wrote
> [..]
> 
>> So I decided to change the usage of that icon on my Scilab so that the 
>> newer one can clear local and global variable as well as clearing 
>> console.
>>
> Are you coming from Matlab? Matlabers and former ones use very often 
> /clear all/, /close all/  at the beginning of their scripts.
> I do not know where this "hygienism" is coming from. clear  is much more 
> brutal in Scilab
> than in Matlab. I never used them in the head of my scripts for 16 
> years, and i have never had problems for that.
> Some students or colleagues knowing a bit or a lot Matlab and this habit 
> and coming to Scilab keeping the same
> have problems with that (but they do not know that this is the reason), 
> since then libraries (sometimes local, loaded
> from ATOMS, etc) are also cleared, etc, and then many things get harder 
> ;) Indeed, embedded Scilab libraries are
> automatically restored when first calling one of their functions, but it 
> is not the case for other external libraries.
> 
> So, definitively, i will keep the clear icon as is.
> [..]

Samuel, I agree with you, and I do not intend to force my changes on any
other user! ;) 
However, I wanna modify it only on my Scilab but there is a problem in
calling some Scilab function from that XML file. 




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