Dear Samuel, my point is, it wasn't possible to execute "!A=1" in Scilab 5.x (without prepending a space) and IMHO one should really *improve* the situation in Scilab 6, rather than just restoring the status quo. Cheers, Wozai -- Sent from: http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-Mailing-Lists-Archives-f2602246.html