From: Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu>
To: Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List functions
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:35:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vd3d1jly.fsf@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82728ACE-C593-4789-BED2-45674C06057E@telia.com> (Hans Aberg's message of "Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:28:13 +0100")
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Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com> writes:
> It seems natural to translate (f, g) x into ((f g) x), and () x into
> (() x), but I'm not sure if the lists (f g) and () can be made acting
> as functions this way.
(f g) would evaluate as a composition as long as f takes a procedure as
an argument and returns a function that takes x as its argument. No
problems there. Alternatively you could think of f returning a function
of x when it evaluates g.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-01 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 16:28 List functions Hans Aberg
2010-12-01 17:35 ` Joel James Adamson [this message]
2010-12-01 17:48 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-01 19:20 ` Keith Wright
2010-12-01 19:50 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-01 20:26 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-01 21:34 ` Keith Wright
2010-12-01 22:19 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-01 22:43 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-03 15:06 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-01 19:51 ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-01 19:56 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-02 9:57 ` Marco Maggi
2010-12-02 10:10 ` Marco Maggi
2010-12-02 11:31 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-02 16:06 ` Hans Aberg
2010-12-03 9:20 ` Hans Åberg
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