Re: Mathematica 5.0: small change in fundamental behaviour.
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- Subject: [mg43068] Re: Mathematica 5.0: small change in fundamental behaviour.
- From: "Christopher J. Henrich" <chenrich at monmouth.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:46:55 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <bh278r$hsm$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Bern
<bgress at mail.DOTucr.DOT.edu> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Has anyone noticed that in 4.2 one can define
>
> x = Table[x_k,{k,3}]
>
> (where "_" means subscript) , for example,
>
> with no problem,
>
> but, in 5.0 one gets a recursion error?
>
> I think this will require me to rewrite more than one software now!
>
I tried it with 4.2 (running on a Mac G4 , OS 10.2.6) and got a
recursion error.
Indeed, this innocuous code:
y = Table[x_k,{k,3}]
followed by this:
x = y
caused a recursion error too.
--
Chris Henrich
"It's our supreme ability and willingness to screw up that is the secret of our
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