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Re: Telling Mathematica that a symbol is going to be a List?

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  • Subject: [mg50829] Re: Telling Mathematica that a symbol is going to be a List?
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 04:52:09 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

m = Hold[{{d[[1]], 0, 0}, {0, d[[2]], 0}, {0, 0, d[[3]]}}];
m /. {d -> {d1, d2, d3}} // ReleaseHold


Regards
  Jens

AES/newspost wrote:
> 
> I want to define a function containing parameters that are going to be
> elements in a list, e.g. something like
> 
>   m := { { d[[1]], 0, 0}, {0, d[[2]], 0}, {0, 0, d[[3]]}
> 
> but not define the list of values of  d  until later (and not put the
> parameters in as explicit arguments of  m  just to keep the appearance
> less cluttered and typing easier).
> 
> If I then give an input line
> 
>     m /. {d -> {d1, d2, d3} } // MatrixForm
> 
> I get "Part::partd" errors -- but the matrix then displays correctly.
> 
> I can of course just Off[] the errors -- but is there a better way.


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