Re: Loading functions

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

  Jonas>  How does Octave keep track of when functions (m-files) needs to be
  Jonas> reloaded from disk? Sometimes when I edit the file during an Octave
  Jonas> session, Octave keeps using the old function as it was when first
  Jonas> used. Is there a way to force the m-file to be read (I dislike
  Jonas> quitting Octave when I have a lot of data in memory)?

Well, which version of Octave are you using ?  The respective code had a few
changes lately, For what it's worth, it works in 2.0.12. In Emacs, I just
wrote foo.m as

        function foo ()
            disp("Foo");
        endfunction

then started Octave, executed foo, changed the text in foo.m to show "Bar"
and hit '<cursor-up> <return>'. As you see, command 2 still showed Foo
whereas for the next one, Octave become aware of the updated file and
displays Bar:

address@hidden:~> octave
Octave, version 2.0.12 (i386-pc-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> foo
Foo
octave:2> foo
Foo                             <--- not yet updated
octave:3> foo
Bar                             <--- now it's updated


Hope this helps,   Dirk


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