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Re: Pipes within Mathematica?

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  • Subject: [mg18162] Re: [mg18123] Pipes within Mathematica?
  • From: Jay Gallivan <jay_gallivan at PaineWebber.COM>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:54:27 -0400
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If you might look at the following URL you may find that mash will meet
your need.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~dreeves/misc/mash/


simon shannon wrote:
> 
> dear all,
> 
>    does anyone know of an easy way of piping
> within a Mathematica session? say i have an arbitrary
> list of data like this:
> 
> data = {"slap", "boink", 4, 5.3, Pi};
> 
> and some procedures which each take a list as
> input, do something sequentially to the input
> 
> proc1[x_] := Hash /@ x
> 
> proc2[x_] := Split[x, Xor[EvenQ[#1],OddQ[#2]]&]
> 
> proc3[x_] := Scan[Print[Length[#]]&, x]
> 
> note that proc2 doesn't just apply an operation
> to each single element---depending on the input
> we get an arbitrary partitioning of its input
> (depending on the test we give to Split[]).
> 
> so my question is: rather than doing
> 
> proc3[proc2[proc1[data]]]
> 
> which generates the entire result list for proc1 before
> handing on to proc2, and similarly for proc3,
> is there a way of doing what in unix parlance
> might be written
> 
> proc1 < data | proc2 | proc3
> 
> or, indeed, if data were itself a generating process
> an even simpler
> 
> data | proc1 | proc2 | proc3
> 
> there are languages that allow procedures to voluntarily
> relinquish control to other processes using suspend() and
> resume() type statements; perhaps something like this
> is possible using the Catch[] and Throw[] in Mathematica.
> 
>    thanks in advance
> 
>         simon shannon

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