Friday, January 2, 2009

Idiom: obtaining property values from built-in lists

Example: CountryData[#,"LifeExpectancy"]& /@ CountryData[]

This type of idiom appears frequently in the Mma What's New pages.

An explanation of this appears here.

Roger Williams
Franklin Laboratory
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