Re: What is a good way of returning a function from a Module[]?
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- Subject: [mg83392] Re: What is a good way of returning a function from a Module[]?
- From: Norbert Marxer <marxer at mec.li>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:15:32 -0500 (EST)
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On 18 Nov., 11:12, Peter Pein <pet... at dordos.net> wrote:
> Szabolcs Horv=E1t schrieb:
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> > What is an elegant way of returning a function from a Module[]?
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> > Module[{a, b}, a = 1; b = a+1; (a+b+#)&] does not work because
> > Function[] holds its arguments.
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> > The best way I could find was
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> > Module[{p, q}, p = 1; q = p+1; With[{a = p, b = q}, (a+b+#)&]]
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> > Is there a nicer/more concise way of doing this? This is a simplified
> > example, but the important points are:
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> > 1. The returned function may depend on more than one parameter ('a' and
> > 'b'; let's forget that in this case their sum could have been computed
> > inside the Module[]).
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> > 2. 'a' and 'b' are not calculated independently. The value of 'a' is
> > needed to find 'b'
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> > Szabolcs
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> In Version 5.2:
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> map Evaluate onto the function:
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> Module[{a, b}, a = 1; b = a + 1;
> Evaluate /@ (a + b + #1 & )]
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> 3 + #1 &
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> This works even for functions with arguments which got names already
> used in the module:
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> Module[{a, b, x = Pi, y = E},
> a = 1; b = a + 1; Evaluate /@
> Function[{x, y}, (a + b + x)/
> (y - b + a)]]
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> Function[{x$, y$}, (3 + x$)/(-1 + y$)]
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Hello
You do not even need Map. You can just wrap your Function body into an
Evaluate:
Module[{a, b}, a = 1; b = a + 1; Evaluate[a + b + #1] & ]
Best Regards
Norbert Marxer