Re: Needs[] and <<
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- Subject: [mg23077] Re: Needs[] and <<
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 03:00:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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<< is a special input form for Get. <<name reads in a file, evaluating each expression in it, and returning the last one. Needs["context`", "file"] loads file if the specified context is not already in $Packages. But you probably knew that difference. As to reasons The Book uses the first rather than the second, I can only speculate. Shorter to type, for one; does no harm (except for some wasted time), for another. Hans Friedrich Steffani wrote: > > Why does the examples in the Mathematica book say > << Graphics`Graphics` > instead of > Needs["Graphics`Graphics`"] > ? > > Hans Friedrich Steffani > > -- > Hans Friedrich Steffani > Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen und Antriebe, TU Chemnitz > mailto:hans.steffani at e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de > http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~hfst/ -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H) Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) Amherst, MA 01003-4515