Timeline for What are "\<" and "\>" delimiters in box expressions?
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 7:31 | history | edited | Alexey Popkov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2016 at 11:16 | comment | added | Michael E2 | @Mr.Wizard I agree they should be merged. (AFAIK, there is no formal method of community review of such a proposal.) | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 10:31 | comment | added | Alexey Popkov | @VladimirReshetnikov Now I see your point. Sorry for the incorrect edit from me. You could incorporate your comment into the answer in order to emphasize its main point. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 8:30 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | @MichaelE2 I am in favor of a merge, putting all answers in one place. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 7:26 | history | edited | Alexey Popkov |
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| Aug 20, 2016 at 18:59 | comment | added | Vladimir Reshetnikov | My answer for this (older) question contains some additional information about significance of these delimiters in newer versions of Mathematica. | |
| Aug 20, 2016 at 11:59 | comment | added | Michael E2 | Shouldn't the newer one be a duplicate of the older one? Or perhaps they should be merged? | |
| Aug 20, 2016 at 11:37 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 20, 2016 at 11:30 | vote | accept | QuantumDot | ||
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| Aug 20, 2016 at 11:19 | comment | added | Alexey Popkov | Possible duplicate of Undocumented Backslash-LessThan operator in strings? | |
| Aug 20, 2016 at 10:51 | answer | added | Alexey Popkov | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 20, 2016 at 9:18 | comment | added | Szabolcs |
We can produce this form using Subscript["x","y"] and looking at the cell expression. The quotes are important.
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| Aug 20, 2016 at 7:55 | comment | added | kirma |
"\<" // InputForm results simply "". I think \< and \> are invalid escape forms of letters and are plainly dropped when parsing the string.
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| Apr 14, 2016 at 16:16 | vote | accept | Reb.Cabin | ||
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| Apr 14, 2016 at 15:49 | answer | added | ilian | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 14, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | Fred Simons | I think the limiters "\<" and "\>" for a string are relicts from the beginning of Mathematica. I remember having studied them a very long time ago, in Mathematica 1 and/or 2, and that they had to do with the box language. But this box language seems to be undocumented at the moment. I would highly appreciate if someone could refresh my memory. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | Edmund |
Just curious if you are using Mathematica to automatically create notebooks with GenerateDocument or Low-Level Notebook Programming; since the internal mark-up isn't needed in these cases.
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| Feb 5, 2016 at 20:50 | vote | accept | Vladimir Reshetnikov | ||
| Jan 28, 2016 at 20:31 | history | edited | Vladimir Reshetnikov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2016 at 18:57 | answer | added | Vladimir Reshetnikov | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 17:34 | comment | added | andre314 | I'm pretty sure that John Fultz (Wolfram) has said or written something about the "\<". It was something like he didn't know any more the origin of this, or what was the utility. It has surprised me. I can't retrieve this information Stack Exchange Answer ?, Comments ? Somewhere else ? Wolfram Conference ? | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 16:59 | comment | added | andre314 | It was usefull until version 5.2. It is documented here | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 13:53 | comment | added | Dr. belisarius |
BoxData["\"\<a\>\""] === BoxData["\"a\""]
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 21:39 | history | asked | Vladimir Reshetnikov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |