Re: Hold/Evaluate in Integrate
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Hold/Evaluate in Integrate
- From: Richard Mercer <richard at rmercer.wright.edu>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 16:41:13 -0500
> Can anyone tell me why > > Hold[Integrate[Evaluate[x+x], x]] > > returns > > Hold[Integrate[Evaluate[x+x],x]] > > not Hold[Integrate[2x, x]]? > > I want to force evaluation of the arguments to Integrate > but not evaluate the integral. > > Thanks in advance. > > Daryl (dreece at cad.gatech.edu) No mystery here. Hold[] prevents anything from going on inside it. My guess is you want Integrate[Hold[Evaluate[x+x]], x], which returns Integrate[Hold[2x], x]. Richard Mercer