Re: Single-step evaluation in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg81277] Re: [mg81235] Single-step evaluation in Mathematica
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
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On 18 Sep 2007, at 01:07, Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote: > On 17/09/2007, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: >> SetAttributes[f, HoldAll] >> f[x_String] := ValueQ @@ ToExpression[x, InputForm, Hold] > > Thank you for the reply! This solution works perfectly (HoldAll isn't > even needed)! You are right, of course. I originally intended to define f both for strings symbols expressions but forgot about the latter: SetAttributes[f, HoldAll] f[x_String] := ValueQ @@ ToExpression[x, InputForm, Hold] f[x_Symbol]:=ValueQ[x] Andrzej > The missing piece was the third argument of > ToExpression[]. I have always thought that ToExpression[] takes only > a single argument---I should check the documentation more often. I > tried using Symbol[] too, which, according to the documentation, > should "refer to a symbol with the specified name". But it turns out > that Symbol["abc"] does not _refer_ to the symbol 'abc'; it simply > _evaluates to_ 'abc'. For example, Symbol["abc"] = 1 does not work. > > Szabolcs
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- Single-step evaluation in Mathematica
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat@gmail.com>
- Single-step evaluation in Mathematica