title: What's the closest thing to #define in Matlab?
body: <p>In C, I might do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#define MAGIC_NUMBER (88)
  
  int foo(int a, int b, int c) {
    return a + b + c + MAGIC_NUMBER;
  }
  
  double bar(double x, double n) {
    return x + n + MAGIC_NUMBER;
  }
  
  /*
   * ...and so on with many kind-of-long functions using
   * MAGIC_NUMBER instead of writing a literal 88 like so:
   */
  
  double bar(double x, double n) {
    return x + n + 88;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What should I do in Matlab?  (Needs to work across multiple files.)</p>