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Re: Style for function calls?

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• Subject: [mg97196] Re: [mg97143] Style for function calls?
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:42:34 -0500 (EST)
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It really depends on what is convenient for your own use. I don't think
there is any particular style that should be preferred to another. Postfix
and Prefix are probably the most common and I think that Infix is more
rarely used, just because it is somewhat clumsy. Also, don't forget Map
(/@), Apply (@@) and  Apply at level 1 (@@@).


David Park
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http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/  


From: Erik Max Francis [mailto:max at alcyone.com] 

I'm fairly new to Mathematica and have a style question rather than a 
functionality question.

I'm aware with the operator forms for Postfix (//), Prefix (@), and 
Infix (~), and I've found the // operator useful for piping long results 
through the ...Form functions, or N, or the like, as a quick 
afterthought while typing a lot of stuff.

What are the analogous situations where @ or ~ are used?  Looking at 
random notebooks around I've from time to time seen them used but there 
doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason; it's not clear when 
stylistically they'd be useful, as opposed to the // operator, which I 
can see and use myself.

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