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Re: Get rid of onion-like parentheses

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  • Subject: [mg37169] Re: Get rid of onion-like parentheses
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 04:17:38 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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  • Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

SetAttributes[CircleTimes, Flat]
f[{x_}] := x;
f[{x_, y_, z___}] := f[Join[{x\[CircleTimes]y}, {z}]];

Regards
  Jens

JJJ Shen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I was trying to write a function, when given a list, say, {a,b,c,d}, the
> output is a op b op c op d, where op is (in LaTeX) \bigotimes, or "esc c *
> esc" (\[CircleTimes]) in Mathematica.
> 
> Here's the code I wrote:
> f[{x_}]:=x;
> f[{x_, y_, z___}]:=f[Join[{x\[CircleTimes]y},{z}]];
> 
> However, the output was not exactly what I expected, it looked like:
> 
> ((a op b) op c) op d
> 
> It seems when doing the "Join" operation, a pair of parenthesis was added.
> 
> Can someone let me know how I can get rid of these parenthesis?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> JT
> 
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