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Re: subscripted variables in Modules

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• Subject: [mg30116] Re: subscripted variables in Modules
• From: "Orestis Vantzos" <atelesforos at hotmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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If you define X as a local variable and take care to use UpSet(^=) and
UpSetDelayed(^:=) for any definitions involving Subscript[X,i] then
everything works fine.
Orestis

"Arny" <someone at somewhere.sometime> wrote in message
news:9jtkij$89j$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello All,
>
> (After some effort) I have gotten a proggy with subscripted variables to
do
> what I want and have come to appreciate the utility of Mathematica's
> decision to not declare subscripted variables as variables but as
> expressions, i.e.
>
> In: FullForm[X_i]
> Out: SubScript[X,i]
>
> The value being that one can create formulas with subscripted variables,
> then apply replacement rules that automatically handle the iterators,
i.e.:
>
> In: Sum[X_i , {i,n} ] /. {n->Length[data], X_i -> data[[i]]}
> Out:data[[1]] + data[[2]] + data[[3]] + ... etc ...+ data[[Length[data]]]
>
> Ok, no problem.  However when I do my algorithm inside of a Module[] I am
> not able to declare X_i as a local variable because it isn't a variable,
it
> is an expression.  So long as I am not using X_i's elsewheres this is no
> problem, but of course I would like to protect everything and would like
to
> do so.
>
> Any suggestions????
>
> B
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