DOM_VAR
Local Variables in Procedures
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Local variables (variables in the programming sense, with “lexical
scoping”) are of domain type DOM_VAR
.
When writing MuPAD® functions, often intermediate results need to be stored and retrieved. Like most programming languages, MuPAD offers “local variables” for this purpose. These local variables do not conflict with global identifiers of the same name nor with other local variables of the same name used at other places.
Local variables use “lexical scoping”, i.e., they
can be used in all program code that is written inside the body of
the procedure declaring the local variable. Note that returning anything
with a reference to a local variable requires the use of option
escape
in the procedure definition.
Local variables can be assigned values and these values can later be retrieved.
Local variables are created by using either the special names dom
or procname
or
one of the names declared with the keyword local
inside
a procedure definition.