Constants in MATLAB

Question

I\'ve come into ownership of a bunch of MATLAB code and have noticed a bunch of \"magic numbers\" scattered about the code. Typically, I like to make those constants in lan

Answer 1

I use a script with simple constants in capitals and include teh script in other scripts tr=that beed them.

LEFT  = 1;
DOWN  = 2;
RIGHT = 3; etc.

I do not mind about these being not constant. If I write "LEFT=3" then I wupold be plain stupid and there is no cure against stupidity anyway, so I do not bother. But I really hate the fact that this method clutters up my workspace with variables that I would never have to inspect. And I also do not like to use sothing like "turn(MyConstants.LEFT)" because this makes longer statements like a zillion chars wide, making my code unreadible.

What I would need is not a variable but a possibility to have real pre-compiler constants. That is: strings that are replaced by values just before executing the code. That is how it should be. A constant should not have to be a variable. It is only meant to make your code more readible and maintainable. MathWorks: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. It can't be that hard to implement this. . .