Please vote if you DO NOT want to have M-function in M-script

The issue is raised in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7685-m-function-in-a-m-script

Or a previous discussion http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/298837

Vote if you want Mathworks NOT to add this feature.

If you like this feature, please vote on the other post. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7690-please-vote-if-you-want-to-have-m-function-in-m-script

If you DON't CARE, you can also vote. http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/7699-please-vote-if-you-don-t-care-to-have-m-function-in-m-script

[Jan]

Please do not forget to create the third thread: "Please vote, if you are not sure if you wand this feature." I've learned this from my lessons in quantum mechanics and theorie of complex systems: If there are 2 solutions, there must be a 3rd one ever.

[Fangjun Jiang]

All right! I am going to do that and make it complete.

[Andy]

Should there be some other mechanism for calling for a vote on something that doesn't affect a user's reputation? The way this has been set up, Fangjun gets +1 reputation for every vote either for or against this issue. Not that I think this was Fangjun's intent, but this feels a lot like padding the post count on a forum, and would certainly throw off the "reputation" feature as a measure of the quality of the responses of that user.

[Andrew Newell]

I also don't think this will determine what Mathworks does. The MATLAB Central discussion is more useful because people discuss the pros and cons of each approach.

[Fangjun Jiang]

I read the post on the Central discussion. There is no conclusion and I am not sure if anyone submitted request through Bugs report. Since this forum has the "vote" button, I thought I can use it to gauge reader's interest.

Regarding the reputation point, I just realized that I can gain points for votes on questions. Is that great? for me I mean? Come on, I deserve some points for posting the two posts, don't I? And Jan Simon asked me to post the third one! With all those cross-links, it already made my head spin!

[Andrew Newell]

I don't mind if you get reputation points from this. It's not fundamentally different from other "meta" questions about MATLAB. People who don't care about the question won't vote.

[Jan]

A voting can be helpful for TMW to decide if this feature is useful for 1 or 1000 users.

I do not expect that these questions will confuse the reputation system remarkably: I'd be surprised if more than 20 people spend their time for voting. Even the most thrilling questions get 6 to 13 votes only.

[Jan]

After thinking for some minutes, I've changed my opinion: Jiang (sorry, it this your first name?) asked a (or two or three) meaningful question related to Matlab. Every vote to one or the other question does and should increase the reputation number, because it indicates, that someone is interested in the question. Therefore these questions are "more relevant" (in my opinion) than "Creating a matrix of blank spaces", which got 5 votes, place 14 of the most voted questions).

[Fangjun Jiang]

Thanks! Now I got confirmation about the 4-2-1 point scoring system by clicking "About MATLAB Answers". It also triggered me to look around and find out that I can click the drop down list of "Sort by" to see those statistics. I am determined to work hard to earn more points!

Damn! How much work do I need to do to catch up? I am far too behind. I plan to use my points to get a fee airline ticket. Which airline does Mathworks do business with?

[Sean de Wolski]

I think the points are only redeemable for Sam Adams.

[Andrew Newell]

you cannot catch walter roberson...walter roberson is now matlab answers...if you try to catch him matlab answers will crush you...crush you...crush...

Answer 1

[Jan]

+1: Better spend the time to improve the GUI objects - continuous slider callbacks, stable UITREE with supported context menu, sortable UITAB, let FIGURE(FigH) move the keyboard focus to the figure as claimed in the documentation (is this solved in 2011a?! It did not work from 5.3 to 2009a...), ComboBox (editable popup menu), stable GETFRAME (no need for PAUSE(0.02) to wait for drawing of Java objects), fix problems with OpenGL renderer (2% of the 2D plots with enabled Box miss the upper border), ...

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

The only time I use scripts is as temporary scratch-pads, pasting in code from questions in order to see what it does or to debug it. And all that does is save me the trouble of adding a "function" line at the top.

The Programming Theory part of me says that Mathworks should not do this: that instead they should work on allowing MATLAB to be "reflective" like Scheme; see here for more information on Reflection. (Disclaimer: I have met the inventor of Reflection in programming languages, and some of my friends worked directly with him in extending the ideas.)

[Andrew Newell]

MOO! Us cows are not good at reflection.

Answer 3

[Jan]

The question is solved by R2016: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/local-functions-in-scripts.html