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Re: Converting a list to arguments for a function --- How?

From	Jason Ledbetter <jasonbrent@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Converting a list to arguments for a function --- How?
Date	2011-05-07 11:30 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<iq3ag5$fcq$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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Not sure if you need something more complicated than just changing the Head.

In[1]:= l = {1, 2, 3, 4}
l /. List -> f
Out[1]= {1, 2, 3, 4}
Out[2]= f[1, 2, 3, 4]

-jbl

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> wrote:

> Suppose I have a list,
>
> list = {4,1,1}
>
> and I wish to use it as follows
>
> f[4,1,1]
>
> Is there a simple way (without looping through the elements list) to
> transfer
> the elements of list to the arguments for f?
>

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Re: Converting a list to arguments for a function --- How? Jason Ledbetter <jasonbrent@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 11:30 +0000

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