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In the meantime I'm accustomed to write special character orgies like D[%,#]&/@L (to quickly fish out the coefficients of the last input with respect to the variables in list L - but I don't have to tell you that :-), but this here mixes Slot and Map. I have to lists L1 and L2 (of equal length 40). The function f shall replace the k-th element of L1 with that of L2. I could simply write f[z_]:=z/.Table[L1[[i]]->L2[[i]],{i,1,40}] but I never become a MATHEMATICA genius that way :-) So f[z_]:=z/.(Rule[#1,#2]/@[L1,L2]) ...nope, Slot doesn't work this way...

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  • $\begingroup$ Sorry, it's not clear to me if you want to assign just one user-defined element from L2 to L1 or if you want to do something else. $\endgroup$ – Fraccalo May 23 '18 at 13:14
  • $\begingroup$ you mean f[z_] := z /. (Rule[#[[1]], #[[2]]] & /@ Transpose[{L1, L2}]) or f[z_] := z /. Rule @@@ Transpose[{L1, L2}]? $\endgroup$ – kglr May 23 '18 at 13:24
  • $\begingroup$ Could you please clarify the desired input and output with an example? As it stands, I'm afraid that I can't understand what you need. $\endgroup$ – MarcoB May 23 '18 at 14:24
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Clear[a, b, c, d, f]
l1 = {a, b}
l2 = {c, d}
rules = Thread[Rule[l1, l2]]
f[z_] := z /. rules
f[a x + b]  (* d + c x *)
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I'm assuming you're simply looking for a way to mimic what Table[L1[[i]] -> L2[[i]], {i, 1, 40}] does. Here are some possibilities:

L1 = Range[40];
L2 = 2 L1;
out1 = Table[L1[[i]] -> L2[[i]], {i, 1, 40}]
out2 = Thread[L1 -> L2]
out3 = MapThread[Rule, {L1, L2}]
out4 = Inner[Rule, L1, L2, List]
out5 = Rule @@@ Transpose[{L1, L2}]
out6 = Apply[Rule] /@ Transpose[{L1, L2}]
out1 === out2 === out3 === out4 === out5 === out6
(*True*)

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I just thought of another one:

out7 = Function[{x, y}, x -> y, Listable][L1, L2]
out7 === out1
(*True*)
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  • $\begingroup$ Ah, Thread was the operator I looked for. It's sort of an argument-Map, right? Accepted for the multitude of cool curry :-) $\endgroup$ – Hauke Reddmann May 23 '18 at 19:03
  • $\begingroup$ I always think of Thread as a function that "pulls" lists out wherever possible (thus creating a single list of an expression that contains multiple lists). Though it's not limited to just lists: for example, you can reverse the possess again with Thread[out2, Rule], in which case it "pulls" the Rule outside. $\endgroup$ – Sjoerd Smit May 23 '18 at 20:27

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