Questions tagged [head]

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What is the definition of head in Mathematica?

I know (by practice) what a head is, but I am unable to find the appropriate words to actually define it. I would like to see a precise definition of head using the appropriate technical words involved. Hopefully, this should provide me with a…
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Extracting terms with certain heads in a function

Given a function with several arguments func[a,b,g1[x],g1[x,y],g2[1],g2[g1[1]],3] I would like to extract all arguments with the head g1 and g2 as a list. So the output I am looking for is {g1[x],g1[x,y],g2[1],g2[g1[1]]} The way I used to…
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Understanding f /@ g[x,y,z]

According to the Mathematica guide, In[26]:= f /@ g[x, y, z] Out[26]= g[f[x], f[y], f[z]] In a simple example, this works as desired with symbolic values: In[139]:= f[a_] := a^2; g[x_, y_, z_] := x + y + z ; f /@ g[x, y, z] Out[140]=…
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Parsing the link returned by CloudExport

Consider Is there a way to make a function justLink that parses a CloudObject[] and returns just the string denoting the link (i.e., removes the CloudObject head?
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