declareVariable -- assigns an input gate to a given variable name

Synopsis

Usage:

declareVariable x
Inputs:
- x, a symbol, or an IndexedVariable
Outputs:
- an instance of the type InputGate,

Description

This method assigns an InputGate which has the same Name as the given symbol or the baseName of the given IndexedVariable, so that later references to the symbol will be treated (and can be used) as an InputGate. This can be reverted with undeclareVariable.

i1 : declareVariable x

o1 = x

o1 : InputGate

i2 : x + 1

o2 = (x + 1)

o2 : SumGate

Ways to use declareVariable :

declareVariable(IndexedVariable)
declareVariable(InputGate)
declareVariable(Symbol)
declareVariable(Thing)

For the programmer

The object declareVariable is a method function.

declareVariable -- assigns an input gate to a given variable name

Synopsis

Description

See also

Ways to use declareVariable :

For the programmer