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local symbols inside Module

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• Subject: [mg55950] local symbols inside Module
• From: OT <montoz at iol.it>
• Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 05:26:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi all, I have some problems in working with local variables inside 
Module: I wrote this function:

RealLinearCombination[v_List]:=Module[{d,coeffs},
d=Legth[v];

coeff=Table[ToExpression["c"<>ToString[k]],{k,d}];

coeffs=coeffs/.Solve[eqns,coeffs];

...
...

]

The function works, but has a big limitation: the elements of the list 
coeffs are not local symbols!

Since the elements of the list coeffs are not local variables, if I run 
my function when I have already initialized a symbol like c3=Pi, say, I 
get an error because mathematica tries to execute 
Solve[eqns,{c1,c2,Pi,c4,...,cd}] since c3 has been already initialized 
as a number.

So, my question is: how can I initialize a local list of symbols
{c1,...cd} inside a Module, when d is an argument supplied to the Module 
itself?

Thanks for every answer!

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  • Re: local symbols inside Module
    • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>