Thanks for your quick answer.
I think I was not really clear in my post: I am not looking for general
good practices in naming your functions or variables, but for the
actual, hard-coded limitations in Scilab for function names.
But your answer was useful as the info I was looking for is available at
'help names'.
Thanks again,
Antoine
On 16/04/2013 10:12, Rakshith Nayak wrote:
In general, rules applicable to variable names are applicable to
function names as well.
For example:
*Avoid builtin function name
*No characters other than an underscore are allowed.
*keep the names short and crisp
*provide documentation when you write functions, so that neither
others or you, won't be having a problem using it, after a a while.
On Apr 16, 2013 1:38 PM, "Antoine Monmayrant"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I just lost a couple of hours trying to figure out what was wrong
with a function I just wrote that seemed perfectly fine but could
not be interpreted by scilab.
I finally understood that you cannot define a function with a name
that starts with a number.
The problem is that the error reported is not helpful at all
("Incorrect function at line 1.") and that neither 'help function'
nor 'help functions' clearly indicates this limitation.
I think I'll report a bug for that, but before doing so I would
like to know if any of you knows exactly what are the limitations
for the name of user define functions in Scilab and where this
information can be found in the documentation.
Thanks in advance,
Antoine
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