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visual subscripts with assignment

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• Subject: [mg11026] visual subscripts with assignment
• From: "Issac Trotts" <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>
• Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:15:29 -0500
• Organization: none

Can someone tell me why assignment doesn't seem to work with visual
subscripting?  Here's what I got:

In[1]:=
\!\(x_\_i_ := x[\([i]\)]\)
In[2]:=
x={1,2,3,4}
Out[2]=
{1,2,3,4}
In[3]:=
\!\(x\_2\)
Out[3]=
2
In[4]:=
\!\(x\_2 = 5\)
Out[4]=
5
In[5]:=
x
Out[5]=
{1,2,3,4}

Issac