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Re: Evaluate part of rhs of RuleDelayed

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  • Subject: [mg91113] Re: Evaluate part of rhs of RuleDelayed
  • From: Roland Franzius <roland.franzius at uos.de>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 05:07:39 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <g79a05$dnl$1@smc.vnet.net>

Eugene Kirpichov schrieb:
> I am writing a lazy recursive function (actually, a tree of UI widgets
> that is too large to be constructed at once).
> Consider, for example, the following code:
> 
> SomeComplexFunction[a_] := Module[{x},
>   x = a*a;
>   {value :> SomeComplexFunction[x + a]}]
> 
> The value of SomeComplexFunction[5] is {value :>
> SomeComplexFunction[x$7418 + 5]} and seemingly can'd be used for
> anything useful.
> 
> Question:
> How should I fix the code of SomeComplexFunction so that the value of
> SomeComplexFunction[5] be {value :> SomeComplexFunction[30]} ?
> 
> Unfortunately, this one
> 
> SomeComplexFunction[a_] := Module[{x},
>   x = a*a;
>   {value :> SomeComplexFunction[Evaluate[x + a]]}]
> 
> yields {value :> SomeComplexFunction[Evaluate[x$7421 + 5]]}
> 


Try function head Replace-ment after expression construction and evaluation

SomeComplexFunction[a_] :=
  Module[{x},
   x = a*a;
   {(RuleDelayed @@ {value, scf[x + a]}) /. {scf ->
       SomeComplexFunction}}]

SomeComplexFunction[30]

	{value :> SomeComplexFunction[930]}


-- 

Roland Franzius


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