Re: Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness
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- Subject: [mg106095] Re: [mg106048] Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:35:49 -0500 (EST)
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OK, so what, in an earlier post today, I suggested needed to be said in
the docs is said there, although not in quite so direct a form ("What
you see is not what is acted upon", as stated by Alexander Elkins).
The issue, it seems, is how and when one finds such principles in the
docs. Presumably the Virtual Book that's part of the Documentation
Center would readily lead one to that tutorial. And it's there, to be
sure -- but not so easy to find:
Core Language > Patterns > Patterns for some Common Types of Expressions
Part of the difficulty in finding such things in the Documentation
Center may be the granularity of the documentation (as contrasted with
the now-defunct, printed "The Mathematica Book" -- if I may be permitted
to beat a dead horse).
Norbert P. wrote:
>
> ... as you can read in tutorial/
> PatternsForSomeCommonTypesOfExpression:
> "Especially for some common kinds of expressions, the standard
> output format used by Mathematica is not particularly close to the
> full internal form. But it is the internal form that you must use in
> setting up patterns. "
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