MATLAB: Having Fun Yet

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Reverse compatibility for MATLAB is not very impressive.
>> fwave1
Warning: PACK can only be used from the MATLAB command line. 
> In fwave1 (line 335)
Oh getting all these 20-30 year old programs to work with this "new and improved" version is going to be time consuming. Good thing I'm retired, and still have AT-MATLAB with gpp on a DOS machine. Hey, it'll keep me out of trouble. Probably should wait till I have a campfire and a beer. 🙂

Best Answer

When I check the MATLAB 5.0 (release 10) documentation it says that pack works by saving the workspace to a file, clearing all functions and variables from memory, and loading the file.
If it were executed from a function or script then it would clear the function or script from memory, destroying what it was executing. Especially if it was a function, since it is not the current workspace that is saved, just the base workspace.
So you have code that blows itself out of the water and you are upset that current versions have no
feature('allowcodetocorruptitself', true)
... Or do I need to try find even older release documentation?
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