RE: pattern matching: rules that stop other rules?
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- Subject: [mg71747] RE: [mg71596] pattern matching: rules that stop other rules?
- From: "Jose Luis Gomez" <jose.luis.gomez at itesm.mx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:04:01 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: ITESM
Hello Croddie, try this code: In[3]:= ff[x_]:=x+2 In[6]:= SetAttributes[qwerty1,HoldAll] In[7]:= qwerty1[ff[2],ff[3],ff[4]] Out[7]= qwerty1[ff[2],ff[3],ff[4]] In[8]:= SetAttributes[qwerty2,HoldFirst] In[9]:= qwerty2[ff[2],ff[3],ff[4]] Out[9]= qwerty2[ff[2],5,6] In[10]:= SetAttributes[qwerty3,HoldRest] In[11]:= qwerty3[ff[2],ff[3],ff[4]] Out[11]= qwerty3[4,ff[3],ff[4]] -----Mensaje original----- De: croddie at princeton.edu [mailto:croddie at princeton.edu] Enviado el: Viernes, 24 de Noviembre de 2006 12:17 a.m. Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Asunto: [mg71596] pattern matching: rules that stop other rules? Hello. I've been using Mathamatica for quite a while but without ever finding out how the language works fundamentally, which I'm trying to do now. I'd be grateful for some help in understanding patterns - it seems like a powerful idea to me. There is something I can't work out. Define a function f [x_]:=0 say Now If [ p, 1, f [ 2] ] evaluates to itself. So the rule in the definition is not applied to f [ 2 ]. Replace If with some other undefined function, say qwerty, and you get qwerty [ p, 1, 0] not surprisingly. And If [ p, 1, f [ 2] ] /. f [x_]->0 returns If [ p, 1, 0 ]. Is there a rule associated with If that stops a rule (if that's the right expression) from being applied inside it? Can users write such rules? Thanks for any help.