Re: Why does the order of down values come back?
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- Subject: [mg124806] Re: Why does the order of down values come back?
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 04:06:58 -0500 (EST)
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More specific patterns always come first.
In your example, especially, it would make NO sense to put them in the
order you tried.
Bobby
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:38:08 -0600, Shizu <slivo.vitz at msa.hinet.net> wrote:
> In[]:= f[0] := 0;f[1] := 1;f[n_] := f[n - 1] + f[n - 2]
>
> In[]:= DownValues[f]
> Out[]:= {HoldPattern[f[0]] :> 0, HoldPattern[f[1]] :> 1,
> HoldPattern[f[n_]] :> f[n - 1] + f[n - 2]}
>
> In[]:= DownValues[f] = Reverse[DownValues[f]]
> Out[]:= {HoldPattern[f[n_]] :> f[n - 1] + f[n - 2], HoldPattern[f[1]] :>
> 1, HoldPattern[f[0]] :> 0}
>
> In[]:= DownValues[f]
> Out[]:= {HoldPattern[f[0]] :> 0, HoldPattern[f[1]] :> 1,
> HoldPattern[f[n_]] :> f[n - 1] + f[n - 2]}
>
> ====================================================
> My question is:
>
> Why does the order of down values comes back after reordering?
>
> Thanks.
>
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DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
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- Why does the order of down values come back?
- From: Shizu <slivo.vitz@msa.hinet.net>
- Why does the order of down values come back?