Re: Controlling evaluation
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- Subject: [mg83729] Re: [mg83706] Controlling evaluation
- From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:24:46 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200711281047.FAA18341@smc.vnet.net>
magma wrote:
>I am building a package and I need to programmatically construct
>expressions .
>At a certain point I have
>
>arg1 = {a, b, c}; (* some list *)
>arg2 = {d, e, f}; (* some other list *)
>samelistQ[list1_List, list2_List] :=
> list1 === list2 (* some logic function *)
>
>Now I want to construct an expression like
>
>Condition[expr, samelistQ[arg1, arg2]]
>
>with arg1 and arg2 evaluated, but with samelist[...] not evaluated.
>In other words, I want to obtain exactly this
>
>Condition[expr, samelistQ[{a, b, c}, {d, e, f}]]
>
>where the 2 args have been evaluated, but samelistQ[...] appears
>always unevaluated
>
>
A couple possibilities:
With[{x=arg1, y=arg2}, Condition[expr, samelistQ[x,y]]]
Condition[expr, samelistQ[##]]& @@ {arg1,arg2}
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research
>What is expr is not important, just leave it unassigned.
>The problem is that Condition blocks the evaluation of arg1 and arg2
>and of samelistQ.
>
>Now, doing
>
>Condition[expr, samelistQ[arg1 // Evaluate, arg2 // Evaluate]]
>
>does not work, because Evaluate does not disappear.
>So what to do? I tried Hold, ReleaseHold, ect, but it didn't work.
>
>This is how I solved it
>
>Condition @@ List[expr, pp[arg1, arg2]] /. pp -> samelistQ
>
>where pp is an unassigned symbol.
>My question: isn't there a better way, using the functions which are
>supposed to control evaluation (Hold, Evaluate, ect) to achieve this
>result?
>
>Perhaps a related more general question:
>how do we block
>f[x,y]
>while allowing evaluation of x, and y ?
>Thank you in advance for any comment
>
>
- References:
- Controlling evaluation
- From: magma <maderri2@gmail.com>
- Controlling evaluation