Re: visual subscripts with assignment
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11039] Re: [mg11026] visual subscripts with assignment
- From: jpk@max.mpae.gwdg.de
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:31:38 -0500
Hi Isaac, the problem is that Subscript evaluate it's argument. When x has a value assigned Subscript[x,_] will evaluate to the value ({1,2,3,4,5} in Your example) Here is the woking definition SetAttributes[Subscript,HoldFirst] x/: Subscript[x,i_]:=x[[i]] /; Length[x]>i h Hope that helps Jens > 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 > > >