Standards for a function name
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Aditya Jain
on 25 Aug 2016
Commented: Aditya Jain
on 25 Aug 2016
MATLAB has a standard that a variable can only consist of digits, letters and underscores
Is there any standard for function names?
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Adam
on 25 Aug 2016
I would assume that the same constraints on variable naming also apply to function naming.
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John D'Errico
on 25 Aug 2016
Why not read the help for functions? Surely the place to look. under
doc function
I immediately saw this line near the very top:
"Valid function names begin with an alphabetic character, and can contain letters, numbers, or underscores."
In addition, it is a terribly poor idea to use names for functions that are already in use. So calling your new function ones or zeros, or sum, is a really bad idea.
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