At 1:01 PM -0500 10/8/1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Some time ago there was a discussion about what to call reverse
>composition (I can't find it in the archive - needs a search option?)
>
>Just now I thought of .~ from . for composition and ~ (tilde, but
>commonly called twiddle) for twiddling the order about.
>
>Maybe we could adopt that as normal usage?
Assuming that "reverse composition" means
f .~ g = g . f
I kind of like >.> ("forward composition"), which I first saw in Simon
Thompson's book.
It makes pipelines easy to read:
f >.> g >.> h >.> ...
--Ham
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