Re: Pipes Inside Mathematica?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg45702] Re: Pipes Inside Mathematica?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:08:12 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, and you are unable to write {{5*Pi},{13*E}} // IntegerPart // Table[0, Extract[#,1], Extract[#,2]] & // MatrixForm and use a pure function ?? We need not a new programing construct, we need user that read the manual. Regards Jens Harold Noffke wrote: > > MathGroup: > > I think Mathematica would be a better programming language if it had a > construct that allowed pipes (like Unix does). The //-mark comes > close to facilitating this, but Mathematica needs a placeholder to > denote "result from preceding //-mark". > > Here's a short example to illustrate what would be gained. > > In[1]:= m = 5*Pi // IntegerPart > > Out[1]= 15 > > In[2]:= n = 13*E // IntegerPart > > Out[2]= 35 > > In[3]:= Table[0, {m}, {n}] // MatrixForm > > Out[3]//MatrixForm= > > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 > > > > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > : : > : : > : : > > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 0 > > > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > > What we would really like to write is the preceding computation as a > pipeline, so that it looks something like this ... > > {{5*Pi},{13*E}} // IntegerPart // Table[0, Extract[<?>,1], > Extract[<?>,2]] // MatrixForm > > The <?> symbol means, "I don't know what to put here" -- it's a > placeholder for whatever Mathematica wants to use as "result from > preceding //-mark". Maybe @ would make a good placeholder here, and > what we would see on screen is ... > > {{5*Pi},{13*E}} // IntegerPart // Table[0, Extract[@,1], Extract[@,2]] > // MatrixForm > > I think Mathematica will be a better programming language if it adopts > some sort of pipe convention. > > Harold