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Re: Re: subscripted symbols

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  • Subject: [mg23473] Re: [mg23456] Re: subscripted symbols
  • From: Carl Woll <carlw at u.washington.edu>
  • Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:54:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Another way, which avoids the notation package, is to simply give Subscript the
HoldFirst attribute. Whenever I work with subscripts, I always give Subscript
the HoldFirst attribute for reasons like this. Anyway, I get

In[1]:=
SetAttributes[Subscript, {HoldFirst}]

In[2]:=
A = Subscript[A, 0]

Out[2]=
A
 0

and no ugly recursion errors appear.

"Kevin J. McCann" wrote:

> Did you use the Utilities`Notation` Package?
>
> Try
>
> Utilities`Notation`
> Symbolize[A_Subscript_1]
>
> Kevin
>
> "F. Mittermayr" <mitterma at linz.vai.co.at> wrote in message
> news:8fb1s9$hrp at smc.vnet.net...
> > Why isn't it allowed to say
> >
> > A={Subscript[A,1]}
> >
> > I get an error "$RecursionLimit::reclim: recursion depth of 256 exceeded."
> >
> >
> > The following statements have been accepted:
> >
> > a={Subscript[A,1]}
> >
> > B={Subscript[A,1]}
> >
> > Subscript[A,0]={Subscript[A,1]}
> >
> >
> > thnx for any ideas
> >
> > F. Mittermayr
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > using Mathematica 4.0
> >
> >
> >



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