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  • From: tdelling at ews.uiuc.edu (Tim Dellinger)
  • Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:06:57 -0400
  • Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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According to "the book" section 1.8.4,

t[[1]][[2]] "is equivalent to" t[[1,2]], "but is clumsier to write"

and that is all that I can find concerning the difference between the
two ways of refering to a list element.

But...

 In[37]:=
 alist = {{1,2},{3,4}}; alist[[2,1]] = 7 ; alist

 Out[37]=
 {{1,2},{7,4}}

So far so good, and yet...

 In[39]:=
 anotherlist = {{1,2},{3,4}}; anotherlist[[2]][[1]] = 7
 Set::"setps": 
    "\!\(anotherlist \\[LeftDoubleBracket] 2 \\[RightDoubleBracket]\) in
\
 assignment of part is not a symbol."
 Out[39]=
 7

What's the problem here?  Is there a difference between the two ways of
referencing list elements that "the book" neglects to mention?


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 natural phenomena." Irving Langmuir     
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