Re: Thread
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- Subject: [mg53252] Re: Thread
- From: Carlo Teubner <"see signature."@example.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:29:29 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have found a solution that works. My original problem with premature evaluation of f is easily solved by doing Thread[F[...]] /. F -> f instead of Thread[f[...]]. There were some other problems however. In case anyone is interested, this is what I've now come up with. ThreadOptions[f_[args___, opts___?OptionQ], spec___] := Module[{fth=Thread[F[args], spec], oth}, If[Head[fth]===F, F[args,opts], oth = Inner[#2->#1&, Thread[{opts}[[All,2]], {opts}[[All,1]], seq]; Which[ Head[oth]===seq, Append[#, oth]& /@ fth, Length[oth]==Length[fth], Inner[Append, fth, oth, List], True, ERROR ] /. seq -> Sequence ] ] /. F -> f I realise one could possibly do this in a less cumbersome way by transforming, e.g., f[a, {b,c}, Opt -> {1,2}] to f[a, {b,c}, {1,2}], then applying Thread, and then putting the "Opt ->" rules back in. However, in that case one couldn't honour the optional parameters in Thread; and also then f[a, Opt->{1,2}] would become {f[a, Opt->1], f[a, Opt->2]} which I don't really want (i.e. a function will thread over only its options, even if it doesn't thread over its other arguments). Carlo -- C Teubner t offline de dot at minus dot ...oops: "on" not "off" :)