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Re: Partial evaluation

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  • Subject: [mg21279] Re: Partial evaluation
  • From: Tobias Oed <tobias at physics.odu.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 03:46:59 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Old Dominion University
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Kevin Jaffe wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I haven't found the answer.
> 
> First we define:
> 
>     In[1]:= A = {{0, 0}, {0, 0}}
> 
>     Out[1]= {{0, 0}, {0, 0}}
> 
> 
> Then the following assignment works:
> 
>     In[2]:= Part[A, 1, 1] = 1
> 
>     Out[2]= 1
> 
>     In[3]:= A
> 
>     Out[3]= {{1, 0}, {0, 0}}
> 
> But this one doesn't:
> 
>     In[4]:= Part@@{A, 1, 1} = 2
> 
>     Set::write: Tag Apply in Part @@ {{{1, 0}, {0, 0}}, 1, 1} is Protected.
> 
>     Out[4]= 2
> 
>     In[5]:= A
> 
>     Out[5]= {{1, 0}, {0, 0}}
> 
> And this is even worse, of course:
> 
>     In[6]:= Evaluate[Part@@{A, 1, 1}] = 2
> 
>     Set::setraw: Cannot assign to raw object 1.
> 
>     Out[6]= 2
> 
>     In[7]:= A
> 
>     Out[7]= {{1, 0}, {0, 0}}
> 
> I understand the reasons for the error messages, but I don't know how
> to get around the problem.  What I need is to partially evaluate the
> left-hand side of In[4], but I don't know how to do this.
> 
> The reason I want to do things like "Part@@{A, 1, 1} = 2" is that I'm
> trying to write a module that must modify entries in an n_1 x n_2 x
> ... x n_k array A of arbitrary dimension k.  I can compute the desired
> multi-index v = {i_1, i_2,..., i_k} for the array without knowing the
> array's dimension, but I can't figure a way to assign to the
> location A[[i_1, i_2, ..., i_k]].
> 
> Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> KJ
> 
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> .

The simplest way is to create a new matrix and assign it to A

A = {{0, 0}, {0, 0}}

A=ReplacePart[A,1,{1, 1}]

Tobias


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