Re: Noob evaluation question
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- Subject: [mg74348] Re: Noob evaluation question
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:06:58 -0500 (EST)
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heycarnut schrieb: > Thanks for all the answers! > The example we gave was contrived, as I said, so obviously we would > use Range[Random...]] if the example > was doing something real! > > We did of course just evaluate the random before the evaluation of the > Position. > > My question was not clear enough, I think. We were just curious if > there was a way to keep the statement 'purely functional', and use > something akin to hold/release to freeze the first value returned by > the Random. The answer appears to be no, matching our initial gut > feeling, though chris' answer comes close with using a helper function > - familiar to us from Lisp. > > Thanks again, all! > > Rob > > Hi Rob, this is your example: SeedRandom[1]; Position[{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, _?(#1 <= Random[Integer, {1, 9}] & )] --> {{1}, {2}, {3}, {5}, {6}} And does this match your needs? SeedRandom[1]; Function[r, Position[{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, _?(#1 <= r & )]] [Random[Integer, {1, 9}]] --> {{1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {5}, {6}, {7}, {8}} Peter