operator on functions

Joshua Marshall jmarshal at mathworks.com
Fri Apr 6 12:13:37 EDT 2001


Szalay Zoltan <szz at philoslabs.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody out there!

> It would be a nice feature of Python syntax providing an operator to 
> compose a function from another two:
> h=f*g  . I mean (f*g)(x)=f(g(x).

Though maybe a little thought needs to go into multiple arguments (to f):

  (f*g)(x) => f(g(x))

  -vs-

  apply(f*g, x) => apply(f, apply(g, x))

or some hybrid.



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