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Re: colon in loop

From	Axel Vogt <&noreply@axelvogt.de>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Subject	Re: colon in loop
Date	2013-10-18 11:45 +0200
Message-ID	<bccebhF7rouU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<l3prpf$hdv$1@dont-email.me>

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On 18.10.2013 01:27, John Harper wrote:
> The following Maple program 
> 
>> for x from 1 to 2 do
>>     y := x^2:       
>>     evalf(y^2);     
>> od;
> 
> gives this output:
> 
>                                    y := 1
> 
>                                      1.
> 
>                                    y := 4
> 
>                                      16.
> 
> I had thought that the colon after y := x^2 would prevent printing y := 1 
> and y := 4. What should I have done instead? 
> 

The following might do what you expect:

for
  <some code ...>

  print( evalf(y^2) ); # explicit output

  <some more code ...>
end do:                # using ":" prevents other output

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colon in loop John Harper <john.harper@vuw.ac.nz> - 2013-10-18 12:27 +1300
  Re: colon in loop "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2013-10-17 18:46 -0500
  Re: colon in loop Axel Vogt <&noreply@axelvogt.de> - 2013-10-18 11:45 +0200

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