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Re: Undiscovered Bug?

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• Subject: [mg46902] Re: Undiscovered Bug?
• From: Harold.Noffke at wpafb.af.mil (Harold Noffke)
• Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:24:24 -0500 (EST)
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MathGroup:

Thanks to all for help with Part documentation ...

    "When expr is a list, expr[[{i1, i2, ... in ]] gives a list of
parts. In general, the head of expr is applied to the list of parts."

ReplacePart's behavior, however, produces a different result ...

    Recall, we had for Part ...

    In[5]:= (x/y)[[{2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0}]]

                 2  2
            Times  x
    Out[5]= ---------
                3
               y

    But, we have for ReplacePart ...

    In[1]:= ReplacePart[(x/y), a, {2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0}]

                                                      x
    ReplacePart::partw: Part {2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 2, 0} of - does not
exist.
                                                      y

Maybe I'm still missing something, but it seems to me Part should be
revised to detect the same errors as ReplacePart.

Regards,
Harold

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