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Re: How to Explain This Behavior of Simple Procedures?

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• Subject: [mg109669] Re: How to Explain This Behavior of Simple Procedures?
• From: James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org>
• Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 06:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <h2z1f41d94a1005071631s41d85a8bqf53ac954fff23486@mail.gmail.com>

Leonid:

Thank you for your careful explanation; very helpful. I was mystified by the
error message, which seemed to complain that a symbol was not a symbol!  But
now, it makes perfect sense!


Richard:

In my actual situation (not the simple case I described), the function in
question was already returning a list of values; which is why my misguided
idea occurred to me. Thanks for your sugestion.