Re: clearing global variables

[Francesco Potortì]

>Ah, thanks Fotis. That's much nicer.

Please, do not top post on this list, and trim your quoting to just
what's necessary.

>> Unfortunately that didn't work:
>> octave:1> global VAR = 1;
>> octave:2> clear VAR
>> octave:3> global VAR = 0;
>> octave:4> VAR
>> VAR =  1
>>
>> Here's a lame workaround that I came up with - included for the archives.
>>
>> octave:1> global VAR; VAR = 1;
>> octave:2> clear all
>> octave:3> VAR
>> error: `VAR' undefined near line 3 column 1
>> octave:3> global VAR; VAR = 0;
>> octave:4> VAR
>> VAR = 0

I just issue clear twice:

octave> version
ans = 3.2.4
octave> global v=1
octave> clear
octave> clear
octave> global v=0
octave> v
v = 0

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