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Re: Non standard evaluation troubles.

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• Subject: [mg20478] Re: Non standard evaluation troubles.
• From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 02:04:45 -0400
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I. Ioannou <iioannou at u.washington.edu> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I've got a problem with Plot and Table "non-standard" evaluation.
>
> When I specify list1=Table[Evaluate[function[ksi]],{ksi,1,2,0.01}]
>
> I get 100 numbers that are not the values at ksi 1, 1.01, 1.02,...
>
> The same happens with Plot of the function.
>
> When I type function[1] I get the proper value though. Must be that ksi is
> held unevaluated and ends up mangled in my function. (which is a module
> that I wrote)
>
> How can I avoid this kind of behavior? I don't quite understand at this
> point the various evaluation schemes of Mathematica very well. Any
> didactic pointers wellcome.
>
> Thanks, John
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>

John,
1) how does
        Table[function[ksi],{ksi,1,2,0.01}]
work?
2) are there any variables in the definition of function that are picking up
pre-assigned values?


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