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Questions on undocumented functionality of Mathematica. Note that such functions might be subject to change without notice in future versions.

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What's in a ValueList?

It turns out that ValueList is quite boring after all, it's just used to hold several variables in their unevaluated form and printing them nicely on both InputForm and OutputForm (individual entries …
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What's in a ValueList?

It's an internal command and thus undocumented, but from the little I could find online I understood that it used to be available in System` prior to version 3.0, albeit still undocumented, and used sometimes …
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What are the main differences between RawArray and PackedArray?

What I know: PackedArray is documented (to some extent) in "Developer Utilities Package", RawArray is just mentioned in Raster3D and ImageApply, RawArray supports Byte, SignedInteger8/16/32, Bit16, …
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What are the main differences between RawArray and PackedArray?

Here goes my conjecture but I would welcome any opinion or clarification by people in the know. PackedArray stores data in a computation-efficient way. It still represents a List in all other respec …
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Is Depth[x, Heads->True] historical?

I randomly found that Depth has a boolean option called Heads: In[1]:= Depth[1, 2, 3, 4] During evaluation of In[7]:= Depth::nonopt: Options expected (instead of 4) beyond position 1 in Depth[1,2,3,4 …
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