What's your mental model for when to use the MATLAB function feval? Until Release 14 (MATLAB 7), feval was the way to evaluate a function handle. By that I mean you might write code something... read more >>

I recently wrote an article on Evading eval. A couple of users asked me how to avoid using eval in the case post under Code Clarity / Readability. The answer is you can't, unless you rethink the... read more >>

If you are a regular reader of the MATLAB Usenet newsgroup, comp.soft-sys.matlab, found on the MathWorks User Community page, you are probably familiar with repeated advice to not use the MATLAB... read more >>