Higher Order Function Question

[Alex Peake]

Thanks both of you for your help.

I chose the:

(Fn)(Args)

rather than:

apply(Fn,[Args])

It seems simpler, more elegant (am I missing something)?

I saw no reference to this method (of apply) in the book.

Alex



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED
> [mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED]On Behalf Of Happi
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:45 AM
> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Re: Higher Order Function Question
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Arts wrote:
> > ps. You don't need to use three apply's, I guess you want to
> > recursively apply disjoin on the rest of the functions:
> > 
> > fun(Args) ->
> >    apply(Fn, [Args]) orelse
> >       apply(apply(disjoin, [FnTail]), [Args]) 
> > end;
> > 
> > is equal to:
> > 
> > fun(Args) ->
> >    apply(Fn,[Args]) orelse
> >      apply(disjoin(FnTail),[Args])
> > end;
> > 
> 
> wich is equal to:
>   fun(Args) ->
>       (Fn)(Args) orelse (disjoin(FnTail))(Args)
>   end
> 
> Perhaps you wanted:
>  fun(Args) ->
>     apply(Fn,Args) orelse
>       apply(disjoin(FnTail),Args)
>  end
> 
> /Erik
> Praeterea censeo "0xCA" scribere Erlang posse.
> 
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