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Assigning return to variable dosent work

I have an function which generate list with random numbers (with return statement). After I wanted to assign result of that function to variable.

something like that:

function() := (
     list:[5,2,5,3,60, 11, -5],
     return(list)
);

list2 : function();

but result of function dosent assign to list2. Where's the problem?

Solution

  • In maxima is not needed to add the retrun code to a function, it will return the last line, and also it is not necessary to assing the list a variable:

    (%i19) my_function() := (
     [5,2,5,3,60, 11, -5]
);

list2 : my_function();

    If you want to use return you can encapsulate the code in a block:

    (%i21) function() := (
     block(list:[5,2,5,3,60, 11, -5],
           return(list))
);

    Then It should work, you have also the random function to generate random numbers:

    makelist(random(10),10);

    for example this generates a list with ten random integers from 0 to 9