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Re: colon vs semicolon in loops

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On 6/17/2018 8:36 PM, jfh wrote:
> How does one get Maple to display some but not all of the results in a loop? The Maple output below displays everything done in a loop ending "end if;" and nothing done in a loop ending "end if:" but one of the two commands inside each loop ends with ":" and the other with ";". I know the output is what my program asked for but it's not what I had hoped for.
> 
>      |\^/|     Maple 2017 (X86 64 LINUX)
> ._|\|   |/|_. Copyright (c) Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc. 2017
>   \  MAPLE  /  All rights reserved. Maple is a trademark of
>   <____ ____>  Waterloo Maple Inc.
>        |       Type ? for help.
> # test : vs ; in loops
>>
>>    for n from 1 to 2 do
>>      n:
>>      n^2;
>>    end do:
>>
>>    for n from 1 to 2 do
>>      n:
>>      n^3;
>>    end do;
>                                         1
> 
>                                         1
> 
>                                         2
> 
>                                         8
> 

as far as I know, it is not possible to do what you want.

I'd use a ":" for the "end do:" and then use  ":" inside
the loop for the ones you do not want echoed to screen,
and for the ones you want to see, use an explicit print() on them.

for n from 1 to 2 do
      n:
      print(n^3);
od:

      1
      8

--Nasser

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colon vs semicolon in loops jfh <john.harper@vuw.ac.nz> - 2018-06-17 18:36 -0700
  Re: colon vs semicolon in loops "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2018-06-18 06:55 -0500
    Re: colon vs semicolon in loops jfh <john.harper@vuw.ac.nz> - 2018-06-18 16:27 -0700

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