Re: global variable question

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Dec-2003, Geraint Paul Bevan <address@hidden> wrote:

| Upgrading to 2.1.50 doesn't fix the problem with subsequent global
| declarations
| 
| GNU Octave, version 2.1.50 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
| 
| octave:1> global n = 10
| octave:2> n
| n = 10
| octave:3> global n = 100
| octave:4> n
| n = 10

There is nothing to fix.  As I said before, this behavior is
intentional, though perhaps Octave should print a warning for
subsequent initializations in global statements.

jwe



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