PEP309 - built-in curry class (revisions)
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Fri Feb 28 04:47:57 EST 2003
Peter Harris wrote:
> Maybe I got confused. I thought the notation (F o G)(x) in maths
> meant the result of applying F to x and then applying G to that.
> Am I just thinking of UNIX pipes or something?
>
> Somebody with more clue than me: please confirm one way or the other?
What's confusing you is the order varies. Sometimes (f circle g) means
f(g(x)), sometimes it means g(f(x)) [where circle is the function
composition operator]. Which one it means is dependent on the
conventions used by the writer, so you need to check first.
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