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strange function that defines a function---how do I do it?

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  • Subject: [mg15209] strange function that defines a function---how do I do it?
  • From: belotto at vassar.edu (Benjamin Lotto)
  • Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:01:40 -0500
  • Organization: Vassar College Dept of Mathematics
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Working with Mathematica 3.0:

Suppose I define

   makefunction[var_, expr_]:=f[var_?NumberQ]:=NIntegrate[expr,{x,0,1}]

Then I can do something like

   z=x^2
   makefunction[x,z]

and it will be just as if I typed

   f[x_?NumberQ]:=NIntegrate[x^2,{x,0,1}]

In fact, entering

   ?f

at this point yields

   "Global`f"

   f[(x_)?NumberQ] := NIntegrate[x^2, {x, 0, 1}]

OK, now suppose I have a list of variables  x1  up through  xn.  Suppose
they're in a list:

   list={x1,x2,...,xn}

I want something like "makefunction" above so that when I type

   makefunction[list,expr]

it will be just as if I typed

   f[x1_?NumberQ,x2_?NumberQ,...,xn_?NumberQ]:=expr

analogous to the above.  Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.  Y'all out there have been very helpful in the past.


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