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Re: How to write a package?

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• Subject: [mg30263] Re: How to write a package?
• From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 01:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Oliver,

The way that you describe is fine - it lets you use some front end features.
You could alternatively type directly into a text file or paste your code
into a text file.


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"Oliver Friedrich" <oliver.friedrich at tz-mikroelektronik.de> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>