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Re: Defining two functions at once?

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• Subject: [mg70776] Re: Defining two functions at once?
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:28:18 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <200610250539.BAA28821@smc.vnet.net> <78AA9A16-9EF9-4717-9E52-3BF779D34077@mimuw.edu.pl> <ehplu9$khk$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <ehplu9$khk$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:

> > I know this is not really relevant here, but I feel I should  
> > mention the fact that there is absolutely no point in using Module  
> > without any local variables; if you do not need local variables you  
> > will do better to enclose the right hand side in parentheses (or  
> > use explicit Composition[....,....,...]).

Thanks. I sort of knew that but -- as with so many other things about 
Mathematica! -- would not have been really dead sure that that was the 
case.

[Actually, I'll probably, stubbornly, just keep enclosing the right-hand 
side stuff in a "Module[ ]" wrapper anyway, nonetheless, just because it 
gives me a kind of psychic feeling that this does somehow encapsulate 
this content into a single named unit.  Maybe it's because I spent too 
many years writing and using FORTRAN subroutines.]

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    • From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>