Re: Why FullDefinition does not work in MathLink mode?
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- Subject: [mg120558] Re: Why FullDefinition does not work in MathLink mode?
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:41:43 -0400 (EDT)
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>From the documentation of Definition, in Possible Issues section:
Definition is an output form; it does not evaluate:
In[1]:= Definition[Plus]
Out[1]=
Attributes[Plus]={Flat,Listable,NumericFunction,OneIdentity,Orderless,Protected}
Default[Plus]:=0
In[2]:= FullForm[%]
Out[2]//FullForm= Definition[Plus]
Regards,
Leonid
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Alexey Popkov <lehin.p at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When working with MathKernel in interactive session without of the
> FrontEnd, FullDefinition works as expected:
>
> In[1]:= a=2;FullDefinition[a]
>
> Out[1]= a = 2
>
> But when trying to use it in MathLink mode one get ReturnPacket with
> unevaluated FullDefinition:
>
> In[1]:= kernel=LinkLaunch[First[$CommandLine] <> " -mathlink"];
> LinkRead[kernel];
> LinkWrite[kernel,Unevaluated[a=2;FullDefinition[a]]]
> LinkRead[kernel]//FullForm
>
> Out[4]//FullForm= ReturnPacket[FullDefinition[a]]
>
> The built-in parallelization functions have the same problem:
>
> In[2]:= ParallelEvaluate[a=2;FullDefinition[a]]//FullForm
> Out[2]//FullForm= List[FullDefinition[a],FullDefinition[a]]
>
> One workaround is to use ToString:
>
> In[3]:= ParallelEvaluate[a=2;ToString[FullDefinition[a]]]
> Out[3]= {a = 2,a = 2}
>
> Why FullDefinition returns unevaluated in MathLink session although it
> works as expected in interactive MathKernel session? Is it possible to
> make it working without any glitches?
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
- References:
- Why FullDefinition does not work in MathLink mode?
- From: Alexey Popkov <lehin.p@gmail.com>
- Why FullDefinition does not work in MathLink mode?