Anonymous Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
20-20
What Are Anonymous Functions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-20
Variables in the Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21
Multiple Anonymous Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21
Functions with No Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-22
Functions with Multiple Inputs or Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-22
Arrays of Anonymous Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-23
Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-25
Nested Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-27
What Are Nested Functions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-27
Requirements for Nested Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-27
Sharing Variables Between Parent and Nested Functions . . . . . . . 20-28
Using Handles to Store Function Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-29
Visibility of Nested Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-31
Resolve Error: Attempt to Add Variable to a Static Workspace. . . 20-33
Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-33
Possible Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-33
Private Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-36
Function Precedence Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-37
Change in Rules For Function Precedence Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-38
Update Code for R2019b Changes to Function Precedence Order
.................................................... 20-40
Identifiers cannot be used for two purposes inside a function . . . . 20-40
Identifiers without explicit declarations might not be treated as
variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-40
Variables cannot be implicitly shared between parent and nested
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-41
Change in precedence of wildcard-based imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-42
Fully qualified import functions cannot have the same name as nested
functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-42
Fully qualified imports shadow outer scope definitions of the same
name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-43
Error handling when import not found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-43
Nested functions inherit import statements from parent functions
................................................ 20-44
Change in precedence of compound name resolution . . . . . . . . . . 20-44
Anonymous functions can include resolved and unresolved identifiers
................................................ 20-45
Indexing into Function Call Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-46
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-46
Supported Syntaxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-46
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