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Re: Redudant code for style purposes?

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On 4/13/14 at 5:27 AM, andymhancock@gmail.com wrote:

>The Mathematica Cookbook has an example:

>array = RandomReal[{0, 10}, 20] Table[List @@ array[[i ;; i + 1]],
>{i, 1, 16}]

>I'm new to Mathematica, but to me, the "List @@" seems
>redundant. The statements give the same results if I remove
>it.  Is there a
>reason for this, either functionally or for clarity?

List@@expr is short for Apply[List,expr] which replaces the head
of expr with List. Since,

In[3]:= Table[Head@array[[i ;; i + 1]], {i, 1, 3}]

Out[3]= {List,List,List}

the syntax is redundant. Also, if I wanted to transform the
original array as is being done, I would use

Partition[array[[;;17]],2,1]

that is

In[4]:= Partition[array[[;; 17]], 2, 1] ==
  Table[List @@ array[[i ;; i + 1]], {i, 1, 16}]

Out[4]= True

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Re: Redudant code for style purposes? Bill Rowe <readnews@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-04-14 09:27 +0000

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