From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec 20 12:03:51 2000
Subject: Re: anonymous functions?
From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl>
To: etienne at isr dot ist dot utl dot pt
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:05:27 +0100

etienne at anonimo dot isr dot ist dot utl dot pt writes:
>   eval (["function p = my_prod(t)\n"\
>           "  p = f(t) * g(t);\n"\
>           "endfunction\n"]);
> 
>   but f(t) will not be visible (see the man pages on local and global
> variables); by default, all vars are local.

As far as I can tell, the only way to do what I want involves crude
hacks (assembling strings, and loading or evalling them). In that
case, I'll revert to using Mathematica (sorry).

>   Also, you don't get an anonymous func : it's called "my_prod". (note
> that "prod" is a builtin function). Do you usually program in perl (a
> good language for anonymous functions)?

Usually in Scheme or Python.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl|        | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/



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