From help-request at octave dot org Sun Aug 28 21:21:16 2005
Subject: persistent vs static
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:21:01 -0400

On 28-Aug-2005, Bill Denney wrote:

| Is there a difference between persistent and static?

No.

| If so, the help 
| should reflect that.  If not, could one of them be marked as depreciated 
| in favor of or a synonym of the other?

Sure.  Please suggest a patch.

| It appears from 
| http://www.octave.org/doc/Persistent-Variables.html#Persistent-Variables 
| that static is just there for a synonym of persistent.

As I recall, Octave had static before Matlab had persistent, so I
think persistent is just there for a synonym of static.

jwe



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