New in 6.0: Core Language
Built on powerful and elegant long-standing principles, the core
Mathematica language has been gradually enhanced under tight control over its twenty-year history. Version 6.0 adds convenient new list manipulation functions, enhanced pattern matching and options handling, as well as a major new integrated debugging and code analysis system.
Span (
;;) — new notation for sequences of parts, blocks, etc.
ReplacePart (modified) — now supports general sparse rule specification
New System for Function Options
New in Program Development
— full interactive debugging and code analysis environment
— special notebook editor for package files, with function indices
New in String Manipulation
Table,
Do,
... (modified) — now support iteration over explicit lists
TreeForm (modified) — graphical display of the tree structure of an expression
