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How to write a package?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg30226] How to write a package?
• From: "Oliver Friedrich" <oliver.friedrich at tz-mikroelektronik.de>
• Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:55:57 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hallo NG,

I'm running Mathematica 3.0 on NT4.0

I wrote a package using the Collatz example in the Mathematica book chapter
2.6.10 as a template.

I did it the following way.

1. Writing the expressions in one cell in a untitled notebook.
2. Switched that cell to be initialization cell.
3. Saved special as package format with name package.m (If I didn't switch
to initialization, Mathematica wrapped two (*  *) around the whole
expressions.
 As far as I see, everything works fine. But is this the common way to write
packages? To me the procedure is a bit strange, although it works. Any
opinions?

Oliver Friedrich