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Re: Types in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg62176] Re: [mg62152] Types in Mathematica
• From: <bsyehuda at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 21:16:12 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
I warmly recommend you of Roman Maeder books, especially the "The
Mathematica Programmer I" look at
http://www.mathconsult.ch/showroom/pubs/MathProg/
you can see there about all types of programming style implemented with
mathematica.
In addition, the combinatorica package uses the Graph[] head for their
implementation in object oriented fashion, so exploring a little bit the
combinatorica package files will help you to see how other are using this
style.
yehuda

On 11/12/05, Steven T. Hatton <hattons at globalsymmetry.com> wrote:
>
> 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 somethin=
g
> like
> Vector3[x_,y_,z_], and test the head of variables to determine if they ar=
e
> 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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  • Types in Mathematica
    • From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>