Re: Mathematica daily WTF
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- Subject: [mg115082] Re: Mathematica daily WTF
- From: Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:13:02 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/29/2010 2:56 AM, David Bailey wrote: > > Copying attributes and usage messages would undoubtedly take additional > machine cycles - even if neither was present - and does it really make > sense to use those cycles on every assignment just to clean up contrived > examples of this sort? How about if there were a different assignment operator, say foo :== bar which, if bar were a symbol and not an expression or number, would copy over the attributes etc? RJF