Re: Mantaining the same form
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- Subject: [mg124134] Re: Mantaining the same form
- From: "Oleksandr Rasputinov" <oleksandr_rasputinov at hmamail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:01:02 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:21:52 -0000, Chris Young <cy56 at comcast.net> wrote: > On 2012-01-07 10:16:36 +0000, Miguel Gil said: > >> At a function in which one parameter is an expression "expr", >> Mathematica 8.0 evaluates or simplifies the value of "expr" when it is >> introduced. >> How is that Mathematica keep the same form of the "expr" introduced?. >> >> Example: >> >> In []: MyFunction [expr_]: = expr; >> MyFunction [(Sin [2x], Tan [y]) / (x * Sec [y]^2)] >> >> Out []: (Cos [y]^2 (Sin [2x], Tan [y]) / x >> >> I want to get the same expression (Sin [2x], Tan [y]) / (x * Sec [y]^2) >> >> Clearly, the input expression and modified expression are equivalent, >> but are not equal. >> For example, if we were to apply the rule of L'Hopital or the theorem >> Schwarz the results would be erroneous. > > I tried everything I could think of, but couldn't write any function > that would just pass on the expression unchanged: > > In[264]:= exprHeld[e_] := Hold[e] > > In[265]:= exprHeld[(Sin[2 x] * Tan[y])/(x * Sec[y]^2)] > Out[265]= Hold[(Cos[y] Sin[2 x] Sin[y])/x] > You forgot your Attributes: In[1] := exprHeld[e_] := Hold[e]; SetAttributes[exprHeld, HoldAll]; In[3]:= exprHeld[(Sin[2 x]*Tan[y])/(x*Sec[y]^2)] Out[3]= Hold[(Sin[2 x] Tan[y])/(x Sec[y]^2)] (Note that HoldAll is an Attribute, not a function.)