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 news:7v3e1n$64r at smc.vnet.net... > 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 > -- > Ioannis I Ioannou phone: (206)-543-1372 > g-2 group, Atomic Physics fax: (206)-685-0635 > Department of Physics > University of Washington e-mail: iioannou at u.washington.edu > 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? -- Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565