Re: Bi variate to mono variate functions

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 30-Mar-2006, I wrote:
>
>| Inline functions are created using eval_string, which is given
>| something like
>| 
>|   "@(ARGS) EXPRESSION"
>| 
>| where EXPRESSION is the argument passed to inline, and ARGS are the
>| variable names extracted from EXPRESSION.
>
>The answer appears to be yes, it would cause an incompatibility,
>because functions constructed with inline don't seem to pick up
>unbound variables from the parent context when they are constructed.
>So we would need a way to limit this feature to actual anonymous
>functions.
>
>jwe
>
>
>  
>
John,

However, the Finline function indentifies all of the args and makes them
part of the anonymous function handle. That is "inline('x+y+z')" is
constructed using an anonymous function handle like "@(x,y,z) x +y + z".
Whereas the case of a fixed value in a user function is more like
"@(x,y) x + y + z", where in this case "z" is fixed. So in that can we
can change make_anon_fcn_handle to resolve any arguments that are not in
the leading parathesis at the time the function handle is defined. This
should be a relatively easy change, but I don't like touching the parser
so'd prefer you do it :-)

Regards
David

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