[Scilab-users] ?= GUI hel

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Le 30/11/2019 à 11:30, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> Le 29/11/2019 à 21:53, Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
>> Le 29/11/2019 à 21:21, Claus Futtrup a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Stéphane
>>>
>>> Lazy = not pretty.
>>
>> Matlab users do not have this possibility, and as a result, programs 
>> do not suffer from eventual border effects. 
>
> So why do they use "clear" at the beginning of every script? This is 
> like a Matlab signature.
> In Scilab, i never use clear (all), and it works.
Neither do I. But I see the same behavior in Scilab programs of users 
around me and very often in Scilab programs posted by users in the ML, 
and precisely due to the potential border effect of lazy global 
variables. The sydrom is:

"I don't understand why my program worked before I quit and relaunched 
Scilab ?"

Concerning this habit of Matlab users, I have a different theory : until 
recently, it was tedious to use functions in order to give a decent 
structure to Matlab programs because each function had to reside in one 
single .m file. Then may users took the habit to write very long scripts 
hence with variables living in the main workspace. Then a "clear" at the 
begining of this kind of script was at least prophylatic, not to say a 
must !

>
>> But I know many Matlab users using a bunch of "global" statements. 
>> This is WORSE than lazy globals...
>
> Agreed, and IMO less handy.
>
> Samuel
>
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Stéphane Mottelet
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EA 4297 Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable
Département Génie des Procédés Industriels
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