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13 questions linked to/from Alternative to overloading Set
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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?
I consider myself a pretty good Mathematica programmer, but I'm always looking out for ways to either improve my way of doing things in Mathematica, or to see if there's something nifty that I haven't ...
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Struct equivalent in Mathematica?
I really miss having something like a struct in Mathematica. I know of (and regularly use) a couple of programming techniques which feel like a ...
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Does Mathematica have advanced indexing?
I have two $M \times K$ arrays $L, T$ where I would like to set all the elements in $L$ to zero whenever the corresponding element of $T$ is greater than 15. The ...
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Metaprogramming in Mathematica
Being functional, and having no "quotation", i.e. essentially treating data and programs semantically same, Mathematica seems naturally capable of doing metaprogramming. But could anyone construct a ...
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Pure Functions with Lists as arguments
Assuming I have two function:
example 1:
add[{x_, y_, z_}] := x + y - z
add[{1, 3, 5}]
If use pure function,I know I can write it as :
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Lexicographic ordering of strings in Mathematica
I recently realized that Mathematica seems incapable of comparing strings in the "normal" expected lexicographic order. Indeed, for some simulations, I need to process text directly, without fiddling ...
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Is there anything like a C pointer (or returning a reference) in $Mathematica$?
I want to do in Mathematica what the following does in C.
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Error Using Sow in DensityHistogram with ColorFunction
To find the color values used in a plot, I was using Sow as shown here:
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Map Input A B C to MyProduct[A,B,C] (NOT to Times[A,B,C])
In writing my own (noncommutative) product I want to avoid typing redundant symbols like
A.B.C or A**B**C, I just want to type <...
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Recommendations about modifying usage of built-in symbols
In my package, I use some of the built-in Mathematica symbols in non-canonical ways. Right now, I use them as Options or ...
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How to put the result(and its specified variable) to clipboard
I have a such custom function to do some complicated thing:
customFun[str_] :=
Defer[StringJoin["abc",ToString[#]]&@*StringLength][StringDrop[str,{1,-1,2}]]
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Set-generating macro unexpectedly reaches recursion limit
One moment I decided to assign symbolic names to all special spaces since they all look the same when put literally in FrontEnd editor, more or less like "" or <...
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Wrapping an association with a specialization of the buildin `Set` (=) function?
I want to wrap some association data into a dedicated symbol (S by example)
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