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Re: Built-in symbols arguments

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  • Subject: [mg70695] Re: [mg70644] Built-in symbols arguments
  • From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:50:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <200610220519.BAA04697@smc.vnet.net>

Wolfram Workbench can tell when a function does not appear to have a
correct number of arguments (it can be thwarted by the presence of
Sequence or ##, etc). So, WRI obviously has a way to construct a list
of the allowed number(s) of arguments for built in functions.

On 10/22/06, dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello to all.
>
> On the occasion of the response of Bob Hanlon on my previous post about
> Frame Option
> in which among other interesting things he mentioned me the following
> elegant code
>
> opts16 = IntegerDigits[Range[0, 15], 2, 4] /. {0 -> False, 1 -> True};
> (Plot[x, {x, 1, 2}, Frame -> #1, PlotLabel -> ToString[#1]] & ) /@
> opts16;
>
> I would like to know if it is a way to get a list of the Built in
> symbols that can take more than two
> arguments (no with Options like Plot, Plot3D, Integrate,NIntegrate
> etc)?
>
> Basically I'm talking about symbols like
>
> Array
>
> FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`HelpBrowserLookup[ "Built-in Functions",
> "Array" ] ]
>
> Partition
>
> FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`HelpBrowserLookup[ "Built-in Functions",
> "Partition" ] ]
>
> IntegerDigits
>
> FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`HelpBrowserLookup[ "Built-in Functions",
> "IntegerDigits" ] ]
>
> Text
>
> FrontEndExecute[ FrontEnd`HelpBrowserLookup[ "Built-in Functions",
> "Text" ] ]
>
> etc...
>
> Regards
> Dimitris
>
>


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