Anonymous function: creation

I am trying to create an anonymous function with f=@(x) sin(alpha*x). The error msg that I am getting is a 'bar' under @ and then '"identifier" expected, "(" found.' Even copy/pasting the command from MATLAB's website does not help. what went wrong here? I am using MATLAB R12 version.

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

Anonymous functions were introduced in MATLAB version 7.

It seems you are using version 6.

[bodhi]

Then, how can one, using Matlab 6, can replicate all results of anonymous functions? Should I use "syms" ?

[Walter Roberson]

You cannot replicate "all results" of anonymous functions in MATLAB 6; anonymous functions have some complicated properties that could not be implemented in MATLAB 6.

However it could be that for your purposes, inline() would be fine.