Re: Did something change?
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- Subject: [mg58130] Re: Did something change?
- From: "Stefan Linnik" <sjl.news56 at tiscali.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 03:43:40 -0400 (EDT)
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To do direct assignments using = the list must first be initialised.
Also f[i] should be f[[i]]
Also as well f[[i, 1, 3]]= 7 works better than f[[i]][[1,3]]= 7
f=Array[0&,{10,8,8}];
Do[
f[[i]]=IdentityMatrix[8];
f[[i,1,3]]=7,
{i,10}
]
Stefan Linnik
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"Ronald Bruck" <bruck at math.usc.edu> wrote in message
news:d90tjl$9bc$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Recently I created a list of several matrices, something like
>
> Do[F[i] = IdentityMatrix[8]; F[i][[1,3]] = 7, {i,10}]
>
> and was surprised to get the message that F[i] wasn't a symbol. I'm
> pretty sure code similar to that worked prior to Mathematica 5. Did
> something change?
>
> I've also tried Symbolize[F[i]] in that loop, but it doesn't help;
> Mathematica refuses to access part [[1,3]] of F[i], claiming F[i] isn't
> a symbol.
>
> How are you supposed to set the individual values of a matrix if you
> can't do this? This is an EXTREMELY unhelpful "feature".
>
> --Ron Bruck
>