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Re: ?

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  • Subject: [mg16214] Re: [mg16095] ?
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 00:40:47 -0500
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

?x or ??x or Information[x]  do not produce any output. Hence  c=?temp is
equivalent to c= Null and not very helpful.Instead you should use
Definition[x] or, if you want all definitions of all symbols needed to
define x to be included (recursively),  FullDefinition[x].  

On Thu, Feb 25, 1999, Mitch Stonehocker <derivado at campus.ccm.itesm.mx> wrote:

>Hi,
>In the context of a larger process (in a Module[] for example) I want to
>see what the global/local definition of a variable.  I have tried the
>following ideas.
>
>In[1]:=temp=a+b
>
>Out[1]=a+b
>
>In[2]:=?temp
>"Global`temp"
>temp = a + b
>
>In[3]:=Print[temp]
>a+b
>
>IIn[4]:=Print[?temp]
>Syntax::"bktmcp":
>    "Expression ?"?!?(Print[?(? temp]?)?)?" has no closing
>?"?!?(?"]?"?)?".?!?
>?(?"?"?)"
>Print[?temp]
>
>In[4]:=c=?temp
>"Global`temp"
>temp = a + b
>
>In[5]:=Print[c]
>Null
>
>Any other ideas?
>Thanks for the help,
>Mitch Stonehocker
>Mexico City
>
>


Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
JAPAN
http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp/
http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp/

Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
JAPAN
http://sigma.tuins.ac.jp/
http://eri2.tuins.ac.jp/



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