Types in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg62152] Types in Mathematica
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons at globalsymmetry.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 03:33:11 -0500 (EST)
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I know there are reasons for Mathematica not being a strongly typed language, but I'm wondering if there are places where a type system might be of use, and how it might be implemented, or simulated. One suggestion from The Mathematica Book is that we could create something like Vector3[x_,y_,z_], and test the head of variables to determine if they are Vector3. I'm not sure exactly where in the book that is, and the Linux version does not have a desktop search, AFAIK. Observations? Suggestions? -- The Mathematica Wiki: http://www.mathematica-users.org/ Math for Comp Sci http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/math/bmwcs/master.html Math for the WWW: http://www.w3.org/Math/
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