How to bind a function argument

[Gregor Beck]

Hi,

I try to bind a function argument e.g. 

fun1 = @(x) fun2(x,a)

This seams to work with matlab but fails with octave up to version 2.9.5

The only way I found to achieve something similar is to use a global variable:

global very_long_and_ugly_name_for_a;
function y = fun1(x)
  global very_long_and_ugly_name_for_a;
   y = fun2(x,  very_long_and_ugly_name_for_a);
end

Is there another way to do this?
Is it possible to expand the scope of a variable to anonymous or nested 
functions to avoid the global?

thanks,
Gregor