Re: how to avoid this evaluation?
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- Subject: [mg37333] Re: how to avoid this evaluation?
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:55:15 -0400 (EDT)
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> MyFunction[a]
>
> and within MyFunction some variable gets assigned with a=x^2 (and not
> just with x^2). Is there a way of doing this? I don't like having to
> write MyFunction["a"]. In some way Save seems to know how to tell the
> system not to replace 'a' with its value.
Save has the attribute HoldRest, you can attach this to MyFunction with
SetAttributes[MyFunction, HoldRest]
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"elcofres" <arrayan137 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ap5g9b$4l1$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to write a function similar to Save, but can't find how to
> stop the main loop from evaluating the argument. Let's say I have the
> definition
>
> a=x^2
>
> if I do
>
> Save[filename,a]
>
> the definition goes into the file, what I want is to get the
> definition into a variable inside my function, so I can do:
>
> MyFunction[a]
>
> and within MyFunction some variable gets assigned with a=x^2 (and not
> just with x^2). Is there a way of doing this? I don't like having to
> write MyFunction["a"]. In some way Save seems to know how to tell the
> system not to replace 'a' with its value.
>
> TIA
> Elcofres
>