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Possible to scope an anonymous function within Module?
This is my first question. I'm fairly new to Mathematica and completely new to SE, so I apologize if this question is trivial.
I'm working on a problem that requires a function to be redefined ...
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Enforcing correct variable bindings and avoiding renamings for conflicting variables in nested scoping constructs
Using global variables the following turns an "expression" into a Function:
expr = 2 x;
Function[x, Evaluate[expr]]
Of course ...
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Module with “local functions”
I am trying to use a Module having "local functions", i.e., those which I need to define only inside this module.
So I tried this:
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Downvalues vs. Scoping for Functions
Regarding my recent question on using a default value for a function argument when a pattern was not met yielded some interesting answers, but the general consensus was "Yes this can be done, but ...
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Modules that initialize themselves on first call
I use a lot of functions that extract a specific data item from a file with many data items. I want these functions to load data (slow) and return the item (fast) on first call, but just return the ...
