Can I define my own special characters?
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Not out of any necessity but mostly out of curiosity about limits in MATLAB -
Does MATLAB provide the capability for a user to define their own special characters or re-define how MATLAB interprets special characters? For example, $ appears to be unassigned to a special character. Would it be possible to assign functionality to the $ sign, such as use as a math operator 5$10; or calling a function, such as incrementing a variable "myVar" in a loop with $myVar? On a similar vein, could a user re-define += to be a variable incrementing operator?
Again I have no need to implement any of these, but I can't help being curious if one could. Thanks!
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Jan
on 22 Jun 2022
Edited: Jan
on 22 Jun 2022
No, you cannot treat special characters in Matlab as functions.
Of course, you can create a pre-processor, which replaces such characters by functions. But then the code is not Matlab anymore and must be converted to Matlab, before it can be interpreted.
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