zip or marry etc: compose()!
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sat Jul 22 20:58:42 EDT 2000
David Goodger <dgoodger at bigfoot.com> writes:
> I haven't seen anyone suggest "compose", which is the only word I can think
> of that comes close to the intended semantics. Especially since, political
> statements aside, both "marry" and "zip" imply two sources.
Compose to me would strongly imply something along the lines of
def compose(f,g): return lambda x,f=f,g=g:f(g(x))
and-it's-still-going-to-be-called-"zip"-ly y'rs
M.
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