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Re: list referencing with [[ ]][[ ]]

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg13991] Re: [mg13969] list referencing with [[ ]][[ ]]
• From: Xah Lee <xah at best.com>
• Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 16:59:15 -0400
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

At 7:06 PM -0000 1998.09.11, Tim Dellinger wrote:
>According to "the book" section 1.8.4,
>
>t[[1]][[2]] "is equivalent to" t[[1,2]], "but is clumsier to write"
>...
>
>But... 

The answer can be found by looking at FullForm,

In[17]:=
FullForm[Hold[li[[1]][[2]]]]

Out[17]//FullForm=
Hold[Part[Part[li,1],2]]

In[18]:=
FullForm[Hold[li[[1,2]]]]

Out[18]//FullForm=
Hold[Part[li,1,2]]

Both forms acts equivalently when you use them to extract an element,
but for assignment, Part[Part[li,1],2]=x is not the same as
Part[li,1,2]=x.


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