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RE: Re: Re: Programming style: postfix/prefix vs. functional

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg70674] RE: [mg70670] Re: [mg70633] Re: [mg70587] Programming style: postfix/prefix vs. functional
• From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
• Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:49:40 -0400 (EDT)

Chris,

Operate applies the function to only the Head of the expression.

f@g[x]
f[g[x]]

Operate[f, g[x]]
f[g][x]

Although I think it would have made more sense to define Operate with
subvalues so one could write

Operate[f][g[x]] or Operate[f]@g[x]

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

From: Chris Chiasson [mailto:chris at chiasson.name]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net

Andrzej Kozlowski,

Thanks for the wildcard info!

So, does @ correspond to Operate? I think Operate is a bit different
than @, but I am not sure.