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Question: Pattern Matching with Indices

Question:Pattern Matching with Indices

ptjb 10 Maple
patmatch
March 25 2025
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Hi all, I have recently started playing around with Maple after using Mathematica for years. I am trying to understand how to do pattern matching in Maple, and am being frustrated by the following example using indices:

patmatch(S[a],S[b::symbol])

I would expect this to evaluate to true when none of the symbols have been given other meanings, but this isn't the case. For the life of my I can't work out what I'm doing wrong, and have been unable to find an example of pattern matching with indices online. What am I missing here?

The equivalent statement using functions:

patmatch(S(a),S(b::symbol))

returns true as expected.

Many thanks in advance!
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