From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Dec  1 22:22:50 1996
Subject: Load function
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Daniel Tourde <ted at ffa dot se>
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:22:24 -0600

On 29-Nov-1996, Daniel Tourde <ted at ffa dot se> wrote:

: I'm trying to define variables as following :

: # name: Nhh
: # type: scalar
:   (1/0.406)^2
: # name: Nalphaalpha
: # type: scalar
:   (1/0.282)^2

Files that are to be read with the load command are intended to be
data files with numbers only, not expressions.  Allowing expressions
might be a useful feature, but I don't think it is necessary.  Instead
of using load, you could just use a script file.  For example, if you
have the lines

  Nhh = (1/0.406)^2;
  Nalphaalpha = (1/0.282)^2;

in the file foo.m, you can type

  octave:13> foo

at the command line to execute the statements in the file foo.m.  Then
the variables will be defined in the top level workspace.

jwe