Re: Re: Hold and Equal
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg73817] Re: Re: Hold and Equal
- From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 06:14:30 -0500 (EST)
- References: <erufqm$s7j$1@smc.vnet.net> <200702271048.FAA24024@smc.vnet.net> <es3ib9$nus$1@smc.vnet.net>
Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Aha! I believe this approach _almost_ allows me to accomplish what I > was REALLY trying to accomplish. It certainly works in the example I > gave. If I encapsulate this in a function... > > formEquation[expr_, op_]:= HoldForm[expr=z]/.z\[Rule]op[expr] > > ... then > > formEquation[(a+b)^2,Identity] > > will produce exactly what I want. > > However, if I try something like the example I was really after (which I > didn't mention in my original post, since I gave something simpler), it > works in the direct version... > > HoldForm[Integrate[x^2,x] = z] /. z\[Rule]Integrate[x^2,x] > > but not with the encapsulating function: > > formEquation[Integrate[x^2, x], Identity] > > The latter produces the equation > > x^3/3 = x^3/2 I hope this would be x^3/3 = x^3/3 :-) > whereas I want the left-hand side to be the unevaluated integral > expression. You need to give formEquation a chance to look at the unevaluated version of your expression. This would do the trick: formEquation[Unevaluated[Integrate[x^2,x]],Identity] Of course it is much nicer if you don't have to always use Unevaluated, so give formEquation the Attribute HoldFirst, which will make the Unevaluated unnecessary: SetAttributes[formEquation,HoldFirst] Something else: Using a default value for op will make the function much nicer to use, in my opinion: formEquation[expr_, op_:Identity]:= HoldForm[expr=z]/.z\[Rule]op[expr] now this should work without any extra tricks needed: formEquation[Integrate[x^2,x]] hth, albert