Best practices for MATLAB code

Best practices for MATLAB code

Does exist in MATLAB code some directive like C #ifdef

#ifdef name

program text

#else

more program text

#endif

or just I use if instruction?

Thanks,

F.

[Stephen23]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/if.html

[dpb]

To add, MATLAB does not implement any preprocessor directives, no.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is no equivalent to the C preprocessor in MATLAB.

The C pre-processor can do some ugly things, such as

#ifdef __CPLUS
   void strlen (
#else
   if (fiddlesticks) {
#endif

that can completely change the meaning of the code

There is no MATLAB equivalent of that.

The closest you can get is to use something like

if exist('name', 'var')

but you cannot achive the wholesale corruption of the code the way you can in C or C++.

[fabrizio restori]

Grazie

[dpb]

"... you cannot achi[e]ve the wholesale corruption of the code ..."

Not to worry....you can still create mass confusion with intentional or accidental silent aliasing of MATLAB builtins... <grin>