Re: AngleBracket[] -- serious bug?!
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- Subject: [mg11578] Re: [mg11541] AngleBracket[] -- serious bug?!
- From: Sean Ross <seanross@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:42:59 -0500
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Scott Morrison wrote: > > I am running Mathematica 3.0.1 for students on a Windows95 machine. I > have discovered that if I attempt to evaluate anything which will > produce AngleBracket[] in the output, mathematica crashes, with a gpf > in Mathdll. AngleBracket[] //FullForm causes no error. If I enter > AngleBracket[] as [esc]<[esc][esc]>[esc] the same error occurs. There > appears to be no problem if AngleBracket has an argument (I haven't > checked this much however). The same problem comes up on another > machine I have access to (also win95). Any ideas? I looked in the help and could find no built-in mathematica object called AngleBracket. the [esc]>[esc] is a keyboard short cut for the \[RightAngleBracket] character, but this has absolutely nothing to do with any symbol or function AngleBracket[]. It is an interesting question as to why Fred[] returns Fred[] but AngleBracket[] returns a gpf error message when both are nonprotected symbols. Perhaps someone from Wolfram could enlighten us. In the mean time, I suggest you follow the general advice given in the Mathematica book and make all user-defined symbols and functions begin with small letters. That way there is no chance of overlap etc. anglebracket[] returns anglebracket[] no errors. -- Remove the _nospam_ in the return address to respond.
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- AngleBracket[] -- serious bug?!
- From: "Scott Morrison" <scott@morrison.fl.net.au>
- AngleBracket[] -- serious bug?!