Re: rhs of SetDelayed
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- Subject: [mg1607] Re: rhs of SetDelayed
- From: withoff (David Withoff)
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 02:48:34 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
In article <3stisq$oee at news0.cybernetics.net> c7081naa at c1.cc.univie.ac.at (Michael Probst) writes:
>Hi !
>I have the following question:
>
>I have to define a few functions that take the same arguments.
>Therefore I don't want to write the list of agguments repeatedly
>and use a variable instead.
>The following approach:
>
>lhsArg={a1_,a2_,a3_,a4_};
>rhrArg={a1,a2,a3,a4};
>f[lhsArg]:=g[rhsArg];
>
>does not work. The left side is o.k. but since rhsArg is not
>converted to {a1,a2,a3,a4} the right side is not.
>How does one do this ?
>
>Thanks a lot !
>Michael
>michael.probst at uibk.ac.at
You'll need to force evaluation of the selected part of the
right-hand side of the assignment before the assignment is
evaluated. There are about a dozen ways to do this. Here
is one of my favorites.
In[1]:= lhsArg={a1_,a2_,a3_,a4_};
In[2]:= rhsArg={a1,a2,a3,a4};
In[3]:= ((f[lhsArg]:=g[#]) &)[rhsArg]
In[4]:= ?f
Global`f
f[{a1_, a2_, a3_, a4_}] := g[{a1, a2, a3, a4}]
Dave Withoff
Research and Development
Wolfram Research