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BRACKET

Special symbol

[
]

Description

[ and ] mark the beginning and end, respectively, of a list.

[ and ] also enclose the subscripts of a list, array, hash array, or array function.

Examples:

(%i1) x: [a, b, c];
(%o1)                       [a, b, c]
(%i2) x[3];
(%o2)                           c
(%i3) array (y, fixnum, 3);
(%o3)                           y
(%i4) y[2]: %pi;
(%o4)                          %pi
(%i5) y[2];
(%o5)                          %pi
(%i6) z['foo]: 'bar;
(%o6)                          bar
(%i7) z['foo];
(%o7)                          bar
(%i8) g[k] := 1/(k^2+1);
                                  1
(%o8)                     g  := ------
                           k     2
                                k  + 1
(%i9) g[10];
                                1
(%o9)                          ---
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