Re: Scripts within functions

[José Vallet]

On 10/10/2011 05:37 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 10-Oct-2011, José Vallet wrote:
>
> | Is it possible to define and use scripts within functions?
> |
>
> Currently in Octave, the script parts would have to go in separate
> files and you can't pass any arguments to them.
>
> In Matlab, nested functions work the way you want, but most of the
> Octave developers think that is not good programming practice since
> Matlab also lacks any sort of local variable declaration, so it makes
> modifying code written this way risky.  If your function has many
> variables, then it becomes difficult to know whether a nested function
> is supposed to be modifying variables in the calling function's scope,
> and it is easy to accidentally make changes which have unintended
> consequences by changing values in the parent function.


Yes, I understand the risks, thanks for the clarifications. I just 
wanted a quick way to clean my code by shrinking non essential parts 
into a single line.

Thanks to all for your comments.

Jose