Problem 679. Alias abs to asb

Created by Richard Zapor

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Create an alias of a built-in function name.

Goal is to alias asb with abs for dyslexic typers.

The test suite will be

 %%
 global asb;
 k=-randi(10);
 y=make_alias(1);
 assert( isequal ( abs (k), asb (k) ) )
 % End of test

My solution uses "global asb" inside the make_alias function.

Purpose: Some names may be long and substituted by short names.

My personal nemesis is figrue.

I want an auto-correct option in the editor for a custom wordlist.

My second nemesis: function9x). MATLAB should know I meant function(x)

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James on 15 May 2012

I'll take one of these for "spritnf" please...

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Brett Shoelson on 14 May 2012

Your test suite is not a good one; you shouldn't declare asb to be global. Instead, you should just allow the function declaration to contain 'asb', as in:

function x = asb(x)
x = abs(x)
end

And do you _really_ think we should program MATLAB to try to fix your typos? That's a recipe for disaster!
Brett

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