[Scilab-users] How to replicate what "load" does (aka creating variable in the current workspace from inside a function)

[antoine.elias at scilab-enterprises.com]

Hi users,

Just to explain, why "who" change.
Previous implementation of "who" was stack dependant, so when you ask 
local variables names,
Scilab 5 reads the stack from bottom to top ( or the opposite ), and 
returns list of variables it found.

Now in Scilab 6, we have remove this stack ( i'm sure you already know 
that ^^ ).
And we use map to store local variables names.
maps are pretty fast but do not ensure order of elements.
"who" returns a list of local variables names, that's all.

The alphabetical order is a side effect of implementation like creation 
order was in Scilab 5.
If we use another system to store local variables names, we can get 
another output.

So please, do not use "alphabetical" order without "sorted" argument. It 
may change in future.


Antoine
ps: I'm pretty sure that "who"'s help page does not say "'who' returns 
variables names in creation order."

Le 2016-02-22 12:51, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
>> Not sure if it is related to `who` or to the special use of `resume`.
> 
> I can confirm that it comes from the bug in who for scilab 6.0.
> See also my solution that uses 'resume' and not 'who' and work in both
> 5.5 and 6.0
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Antoine
> 
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