Re: Programming style: postfix/prefix vs. functional
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- Subject: [mg70716] Re: Programming style: postfix/prefix vs. functional
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:24:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Will Robertson wrote: > Will Robertson wrote: > >>If it's simply personal preference, what do you like to use? > > > Thanks all, much food for thought. > It seems pretty clear that most people prefer the shorthands. Interesting. I don't use it myself, and find it quite difficult to read. > I think I'm now of the opinion that if I was beginner enough in > Mathematica, and I forgot what /@ meant after 6 months, I'd also forget > how Map[] worked; so the advantages in simplifying the code by using > the shorthand methods (both for reading and writing) outweigh any > advantage of the verbosity of the named functions. I teach calculus students to use Mathematica, and I don't show them the shorthand with the @ and so forth. I far prefer the Function[] notation for teaching. -- Helen Read University of Vermont