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Evaluation of Conditional Definitions

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  • Subject: [mg33808] Evaluation of Conditional Definitions
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:52:42 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear MathGroup,

I want to make a definition that will apply only if a global variable is set
to True. The following works, but only with an original input expression and
not on reevaluation of an expression.

Clear[g, a, UseDefinition];
g[a] /; UseDefinition == True := 2

UseDefinition = False;
expr = g[a]
g[a]

UseDefinition = True;
g[a]
2

But...

expr
g[a]

Why does Mathematica stop before applying the definition to g[a]?

I actually want to use this with an UpValue definition but run into the same
problem.

Clear[f, a, UseDefinition];
a /: f[a] /; UseDefinition == True := 2

UseDefinition = False;
expr = f[a]
f[a]

UseDefinition = True;
f[a]
2

expr
f[a]

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/



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