Re: accessing the calling environment from within a function

[Paul Kienzle]

The categorical index is handy:

        http://octave.sourceforge.net/index

evalin/assignin are mentioned in >Programming >Interpreter Interface

- Paul

On Dec 10, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Paul Laub wrote:

> Dear Paul,
>
> Your suggestion works great ... and is less filling too! Thanks!
>
> I wonder what other undocumented goodies lurk in Octave.
>
> Paul Laub
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:14:54 -0500, Paul Kienzle 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > evalin('caller','code')
> > assignin('caller','variable','value')
> >
> >         - Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 8, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Paul Laub wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > How can I create a function able to access any or all of the
> > > variables in the namespace (or scope) of the calling
> > > environment. I'd like to do this without passing all
> > > of the variables via the arg list and without explicitly
> > > marking all variables as global.
> > >
> > > One workaround, I suppose, is to use a script rather
> > > than a function. But is there any way to invoke a
> > > script in a function-like way, that is, with an
> > > argument list? The best I can do is have the script
> > > interactively request names of arguments using input().
> > > However, I'd like to avoid such interactivity.
> > >
> > > Currently I am using Octave 2.1.57 without the forge
> > > extensions.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > Paul Laub
>
>
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