Re: Combining several pure functions into a single pure function
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- Subject: [mg7297] Re: [mg7262] Combining several pure functions into a single pure function
- From: wself at viking.emcmt.edu (Will Self)
- Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:20:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Bob Lawrence asked an interesting question about creating disjunctions and conjunctions of pure functions. In essence, I think, what is required is a function disj that would accept two pure functions as arguments and return a pure function. The pure function returned would itself accept two Boolean inputs and return their disjuntion. To get around Bob's difficulty, we can use Literal to prevent too-early evaluation of Function. In[59]:= disj[f1_,f2_]:=Function[x,Evaluate[f1[x] || f2[x] /. Literal[Function[a_,b_]]->Function[a,b][x]]] In[60]:= g1=Function[x,x>0] Out[60]= Function[x, x > 0] In[61]:= g2=Function[y, y<2] Out[61]= Function[y, y < 2] In[62]:= disj[g1,g2] Out[62]= Function[x$, x$ > 0 || x$ < 2] In[63]:= h=#<3& Out[63]= #1 < 3 & In[64]:= disj[g1,h] Out[64]= Function[x$, x$ > 0 || x$ < 3] Will Self Montana