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  • Subject: [mg69197] ReplaceAll (/.)
  • From: Bruce Colletti <vze269bv at verizon.net>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 06:41:51 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Re Mathematica 5.2.0.0.

Why doesn't:

               (a b) /. x_Times -> List @@ x

return {a,b}?  My (flawed) reasoning is that a b has form Times[a,b], and so x matches to Times[a,b].  List@@x replaces Times with List to yield List[a,b], or {a,b}...or so it would seem.

The explanation is somehow linked to the fact that:

               (a b) /. x_Times :> List @@ x

returns {a,b}, but I don't see why this works but not the above.  

Although List@@(a,b) returns {a,b}, I want to use the above ReplaceAll function (this example here is taken from a larger problem).  

Thankx.

Bruce


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