Re: question about Block
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg69718] Re: question about Block
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:31:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
- References: <eeqpqm$oel$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi,
since there is no function, that tell you the
answer to the question
is message func::xyz On or Off you can't switch
off
the message in your functions, because you will
change a global
state. So, if you wish to turn off the messages
inside of your
function but don't change the global state you
have to use
the Block[{Message},..] construction.
Regards
Jens
<dimmechan at yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:eeqpqm$oel$1 at smc.vnet.net...
| Hello to all.
|
| Block as it is well known to the members of this
forum does have some
| nice applications.
| For example
|
| $Version
| "5.2 for Microsoft Windows (June 20, 2005)"
|
| Block[{Message}, Integrate[1/x, {x, -1, 2}]]
| Infinity
| Block[{Message}, NIntegrate[Sin[x]/x, {x, 0,
Infinity}]]
| 2.6457805920701
|
| (execute the commands without Block to see the
messages)
|
| Let me now define a list of two functions.
|
| lst = {1/x, 1/x^2};
|
| Then
|
| NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]
| \!\(NIntegrate::"inum" : "Integrand \!\({1\/x,
| 1\/x\^2}\) is not numerical at \!\({x}\) =
{1.5`}."\)
| NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]
|
| because NIntegrate has the attribute HoldAll
|
| Attributes[NIntegrate]
| {HoldAll, Protected}
|
| Of course
|
| NIntegrate[Evaluate[lst], {x, 1, 2}]
| {0.693147180559947, 0.5000000000000211}
|
| Now to my surprise I discovered that the
following commands fail to
| prevent the appearance of NIntegrate::inum
message.
|
| Block[{Message}, NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]]
| \!\(NIntegrate::"inum" : "Integrand \!\({1\/x,
| 1\/x\^2}\) is not numerical at \!\({x}\) =
{1.5`}."\)
| NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]
|
| Block[{$Messages = {}}, NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1,
2}]]
| \!\(NIntegrate::"inum" : "Integrand \!\({1\/x,
| 1\/x\^2}\) is not numerical at \!\({x}\) =
{1.5`}."\)
| NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]
|
| What is more strange is that the relevant
Plot::plnr message can be
| prevented.
|
| Plot[lst, {x, 1, 2}, DisplayFunction ->
Identity];
| Plot::plnr : lst is not a machine-size real
number at x =
| 1.0000000416666666`. (...3 times...)
| General::stop : Further output of Plot::plnr
will be suppressed during
| this \
| calculation.
|
| Attributes[Plot]
| {HoldAll, Protected}
|
| Block[{Message}, Plot[lst, {x, 1, 2},
DisplayFunction -> Identity]];
| Block[{$Messages = {}}, Plot[lst, {x, 1, 2},
DisplayFunction ->
| Identity]];
|
| Of course someone can simply switch off the
message.
|
| Off[NIntegrate::inum]
| NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]
| NIntegrate[lst, {x, 1, 2}]
|
| On[NIntegrate::inum]
|
| but the question remains why exist this strange
(at least for me)
| situation.
|
| Any comments/suggestions?
|
| Dimitris
|