[JLINK] passing a function reference
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg62832] [JLINK] passing a function reference
- From: jkatz at email.arizona.edu
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:04:46 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Frequently when writing program in mathematica, I find it useful to have one function take function as one of its parameters, e.g. F[f_]:=f[2] I would like to duplicate this functionality for some installable java code I am writing so that class`F[f] passes some reference to java so that I can evaluate the function on the java side, calling back to mathematica appropriately, so it seems like I can either pass a symbol represting the function name, build up a packet manually to evaluate it and send that off, or possibly pass a pure function and do something similar, what seems like a robust solution to you, I'd (ideally) like this to be as transparent to the end user as possible, and to incoporate any optimization (MethodFunction for example), thats probably asking alot, but I'm just interested to hearing what you think is a good overall solution Jonathan Katz