RE: List of Variables and manipulating them ...
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- Subject: [mg46966] RE: [mg46935] List of Variables and manipulating them ...
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:24:50 -0500 (EST)
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Detlef Mueller [mailto:dmueller at mathematik.uni-kassel.de] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:55 AM >To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Subject: [mg46966] [mg46935] List of Variables and manipulating them ... > > >Hello, > >I have the following Idea: > >During a Session, a User can create some Variables, wich are >all of the Form > >x = MyType[L_list, S_anything]. > >say > >x=MyType[{1,2,5,6},Y], >y=MyType[{1,2,4,9},R], >A99=MyType[{1,2,99},PI] >... >and so on. > >Now I want to perform the following: > >Take All Variables wich look like >MyType[L, S] and replace L by some Function >of L, for example Sort L descending instead >of ascending. > >For the given Example, after calling > >ChangeAllMyTypeOrders[] > >the Variables should changed and have the >Values > >x=MyType[{6,5,2,1},Y], >y=MyType[{9,4,2,1},R], >A99=MyType[{99,2,1},S] >... >and so on. > >Any Ideas, if and how this could be >achieved? > >(The Problem appeared while creating Objects enriched >with some Information in them, as a Term-Order. Now >I want to change this Order, and update all existing >objects ...) > >greetings > Detlef Mueller > I'm not too sure in this, to me it appears as you were changing a type. The basic question seems to be if you'll like that, e.g. if the girl you married, suddenly changed here type, or your bank, imagine! One idea to pursue your program (literally) would be to locate all definitions which have MyType[...] at there rhs, and change them. In[1]:= x = MyType[{1, 2, 5, 6}, Y]; y = MyType[{1, 2, 4, 9}, R]; A99 = MyType[{1, 2, 99}, Pi]; In[3]:= allNames = Names["Global`*"]; In[4]:= pos = Position[Symbol /@ allNames, MyType[__]] Out[4]= {{1}, {5}, {6}} In[5]:= thoseNames = Extract[allNames, pos] Out[5]= {"A99", "x", "y"} In[6]:= thoseValues = Symbol /@ thoseNames Out[6]= {MyType[{1, 2, 99}, \[Pi]], MyType[{1, 2, 5, 6}, Y], MyType[{1, 2, 4, 9}, R]} In[7]:= Clear /@ thoseNames; In[8]:= MapThread[(#1 = MapAt[Reverse, #2, 1]) &, {Symbol /@ thoseNames, thoseValues}]; In[9]:= Symbol /@ thoseNames Out[9]= {MyType[{99, 2, 1}, \[Pi]], MyType[{6, 5, 2, 1}, Y], MyType[{9, 4, 2, 1}, R]} Such you have got what you wanted. Yet I doubt you will become happy with that. It's a bit expensive to this (this can be mitigated a bit, if you keep all your symbols denotating your "objects" within a certain Context). But this appears not to be the object-oriented way: you had to define Methods to access Parts of your objects, which is easy to do if you can keep a discipline not to use Part, First, Extract, ReplacePart,... or pattern matching to do that (except within these methods); but as you see, then you give away much of Mathematica. Alternatively, if your manipulations are confined to a certain stretch of code, then localize this with Block and try something like this. Set up, temporarily, a definition for MyType, that delivers the reversed order (or function value) In[6]:= MyType[aa_List, b_] := YourType[Reverse[aa], b]; MyType[a_, b_] := YourType[a, b] In[9]:= Part[MyType[{1, 2, 3}, Gaga], 1, 1] Out[9]= 3 In[10]:= First[MyType[{1, 2, 3}, Gaga]] Out[10]= {3, 2, 1} In[13]:= MyType[{1, 2, 3}, Gaga] /. MyType[a_, b_] :> a Out[13]= {3, 2, 1} ... but In[16]:= Unevaluated[MyType[{1, 2, 3}, Gaga]] /. HoldPattern[MyType[a_, b_]] :> a Out[16]= {1, 2, 3} Done that, clear the definitions for MyType (or leave Block) -- Hartmut Wolf