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new functional operator

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg125263] new functional operator
• From: roby <roby.nowak at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 06:52:12 -0500 (EST)
• Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com

Dear Group and Mathematica staff.

In the functional programming spirit I am missing a postfix notation
for Map[ ].

Du to its clarity I often prefer the sequentiall postfix style
processing of expressions and data:
e.g.

data//F1//F2//F3


but what if our data is a List and the functions we want to perform on
don't have the Listable Attribute ?.
the clumsy solution now is:

data//F1/@#&//F2/@#&//F3/@#&



therefor I suggest a new functional operator, which e.g. could look
like this: ///
such that my favorit expression would appear in this nice and clear
form:

data///F1///F2///F3


In other words the new /// operator should temporarily activate the
Listable Atrribute for the affected function


any comments welcome

Robert