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5 Limitations of high- and medium-level functions

For the function handles passed as arguments to Function parcellfun, Function pararrayfun, Function netcellfun, Function netarrayfun, and Single remote function evaluation, the following limitations may apply:

Anonymous functions should be usable as usual, since the function specification sent to the server will include the anonymous functions context.

There is no way to set global variables for the function called by parcellun or pararrayfun. For cluster execution, setting global variables is possible, e.g. with Distribute Octave variables; however, netcellfun and netarrayfun won’t ’see’ global variables if they use parcellfun internally (which is the default at remote machines with more than one available processor core).