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Re: Recursion inspection technique : HoldForm but release variables

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• Subject: [mg66423] Re: Recursion inspection technique : HoldForm but release variables
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 02:02:57 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
• References: <e3um8v$hfr$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

test[j_Integer?Positive] :=test[j] = k[j] f[j - 1] 
/. f[a_]:>HoldForm[test[a]]

Regards
  Jens

"flatmax" <flatmax at gmail.com> schrieb im 
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| Hi,
|
| If I define a recursion and hold its form to 
inspect it :
| Clear[test]
| test[j_Integer?Positive] :=
|                              test[j] = k[j] 
HoldForm[ test[j - 1] ]
|
| then This is what happens :
|
|   In[22]:= test[4]
|
| Out[22]:= test[4 - 1] k[4]
|
| But I would like it to be with the variable 
evaluated :
|
| Out[22]:= test[3] k[4]
|
| Whats the trick ???
|
| thanks
| Matt
|