Questions tagged [meta-programming]

I'm working on a project that allows for executing arbitrary, user-defined Mathematica scripts. It's an internal tool running on a trusted, local network. It's basically a web interface to Mathematica. For every user-defined package I import, I can…

I want to take a pattern and get a set of matching types. The set of types does not need to be complete, but it needs to satisfy, say, 90% of the cases. Here's is a (definitely not complete) set of examples: arg_ -> "Arbitrary" arg__ -> "Arbitrary…

I have a large number of data variables that are represented in MMA as symbols set to lists. For example: x = {1, 2, 3}; y = {4, 5, 6}; I want to be able to write simple transformation rules on the data that I'd like to apply to the variables…