Re: What is @@@?
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- Subject: [mg87295] Re: What is @@@?
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at arcor.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:14:58 -0400 (EDT)
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AES wrote: > In article <ft2au1$ph5$1 at smc.vnet.net>, > "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu> wrote: > >> I have seen several references to the command @@@ in this newsgroup, but >> a query of the online Documentation Center just refers me to Apply (@@). >> What does it do and where can I read about it? > > More broadly: > > * Do all the _non-alphabetical_ commands (or symbols, or operators, or > abbreviations, or whatever is their proper appellation) like "/.", > "//.", "->", "=>", "@", etc, etc, etc, have a unique appellation _as > a class_? what would a class be within mathematica? There is a symbol related to each of them... > * Does each of these non-alphabetical constructs also have a unique > individual name? yes > * Suppose one wanted to get a complete (complete!) list of all of these > non-alphabetical constructs, their names, and maybe a brief description > of their meaning, to use maybe as a reference list, a crib sheet, or > just to see which of them one hasn't learned yet. Where would one go? I don't know. What I usually do is to write a short expression that does not evaluated (if in doubt wrap it with Hold) and look at it's input form, e.g.: InputForm[ f @@@ x ] which gives you the full name of the corresponding symbol which you then can look up in the documentation. Of course in some cases like @@@ you will need to either read the corresponding page or at least search it for the string @@@ to find the explanation... hth, albert