Question about function construction
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- Subject: [mg119474] Question about function construction
- From: ZiYuan Lin <ziyuang at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 07:04:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica at googlegroups.com
Hi, there. I want to construct a function serving as a hash table. This is how I make it: ConstructHashtable[] := Module[{pairs = {{"key1", "value1"}, {"key2", "value2"}, {"key3", "value3"}, {"key4", "value4"}}}, Clear[Hashtable]; Hashtable[key_?StringQ] := (Hashtable[#[[1]]] = #[[2]]) & /@ pairs;] And then I run the code above together with a test: ConstructHashtable[]; Hashtable["key1"] Yet it returns all values: {"value1", "value2", "value3", "value4"} But if I run it again: Hashtable["key1"] It will get normal: "value1" What is the reason for this? Thank you~