[erlang-questions] Second order function lists:map

Richard O'Keefe ok@REDACTED
Tue Mar 10 23:42:40 CET 2009


On 11 Mar 2009, at 3:56 am, Franco Milicchio wrote:
> The second one is tricky to me (I am not an erlang guru!). I want  
> its "dual", so given a list of functions, I'd like to map them to a  
> single argument, writing a second-order function like the above  
> p:paa/1. The only problem is that I am stopped by this problem, I  
> know it's easy but I am not that good at functional programming :)

1.  map(F, L) -> [F(X) | X <- L].
     paa(F) -> fun (L) -> map(F, L) end.

2.  pam(L, X) -> [F(X) | F <- L].
     aap(L) -> fun (X) -> pam(L, X) end.

See the parallels?




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