Built-in Mathematica Symbol

Sow

Sow[e]
specifies that e should be collected by the nearest enclosing Reap.

Sow[e, tag]
specifies that e should be collected by the nearest enclosing Reap whose pattern matches tag.

Sow[e, {tag₁, tag₂, ...}]
specifies that e should be collected once for each pattern that matches a tag_i.

By having several identical tag_i, a single expression can be made to appear multiple times in a list returned by Reap.

Evaluate a sequence of expressions, "sowing" some to be collected by Reap:

Compute a sum, "sowing" i^2 at each step:

Make separate lists for expressions "sown" with different tags:

Reap only expressions "sown" with tag x:

Evaluate a sequence of expressions, "sowing" some to be collected by Reap:

Compute a sum, "sowing" i^2 at each step:

Make separate lists for expressions "sown" with different tags:

Reap only expressions "sown" with tag x:

Sow can be used anywhere in a computation:

It still works inside a function:

A single expression can be "sown" with multiple tags:

If a single tag is repeated, the expression is sown repeatedly:

A pattern in Reap can be used to specify which tags to collect:

The default is the pattern _, so that everything is collected:

Tags can have any form; here they are True and False:

Make a list of all the steps taken in evaluating FindRoot:

Evaluate an iterated map, keeping iterates that are below 1/100:

Find equivalence classes with respect to the value of

mod 10:

Sow[x] returns x, "sowing" it as a side effect:

Expressions sown are reaped by the innermost enclosing Reap: