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Re: Re: Give a list of options in Mathematica 6

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  • Subject: [mg84654] Re: [mg84634] Re: Give a list of options in Mathematica 6
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 01:33:25 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Did you actually try those?  Neither Evaluate[opts] nor 
Evaluate[Flatten[opts] seems to work (at least for me).

Peter Breitfeld wrote:
> Giacomo Ciani schrieb:
> [*** snipp ***] 
>> Noe I'm unable to replicate this in mathematica 6. Cut and paste of a
>> sample notebook:
>>
>> In[65]:= opts = {PlotRange -> {0, 1}, AxesOrigin -> {0, 0.5}}
>>
>> Out[65]= {PlotRange -> {0, 1}, AxesOrigin -> {0, 0.5}}
>>
>> In[66]:= Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}, opts]
>>
>> During evaluation of In[66]:= Plot::nonopt: Options expected (instead
>> \
>> of opts) beyond position 2 in Plot[x,{x,0,1},opts]. An option must be
>> \
>> a rule or a list of rules. >>
> [*** snipp ***]
> 
> Giacomo,
> use
> 
> Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}, Evaluate[opts]]
> 
> Sometimes I found that I needed Evaluate[Flatten[opts]]
> 
> Gruss Peter

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