calling a function within a multi-function file

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-May-2005, Brian Blais wrote:

| I could use the source command, but then I have to do that
| manually every time I change the file.

If you want to simulate "packages" similar to those used by other
languages, in which multiple functions are grouped together in a
single file, then it might not be so bad to have to explicity load the
new version of the package if it changes while the interpreter is
already running.

I think that the auto-(re)loading feature of Matlab is maybe more of a
bug rather than a feature.  It's not good for performance to have to
check the disk repeatedly to see if a function has changed.

What do you gain by putting two public functions (I'd consider them
both to be public if you want to call both of them directly) in a
single file?

jwe



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