Re: Mathematica 5.0: small change in fundamental behaviour.
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- Subject: [mg43066] Re: [mg43051] Mathematica 5.0: small change in fundamental behaviour.
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:46:53 -0400 (EDT)
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In Mathematica 4.2.1, I get a recursion error for that same thing.
Given that x with a subscript of k has InputForm Subscript[x, k], I
would _expect_ a recursion error. So if indeed it worked in 4.2 or
earlier, I would regard _that_ as peculiar.
Bern wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Has anyone noticed that in 4.2 one can define
>
> x = Table[x_k,{k,3}]
>
> (where "_" means subscript) , for example,
>
> with no problem,
>
> but, in 5.0 one gets a recursion error?
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> I think this will require me to rewrite more than one software now!
>
> Bernard
>
>
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- Mathematica 5.0: small change in fundamental behaviour.
- From: Bern <bgress@mail.DOTucr.DOT.edu>
- Mathematica 5.0: small change in fundamental behaviour.