[Haskell-cafe] Are there arithmetic composition of functions?

[Ryan Ingram]

This instance can be made more general without changing the code; change
the first line to

instance Num a => Num (e -> a) where

I think this version doesn't even require FlexibleInstances.

This lets you do

f x = if x then 2 else 3
g x = if x then 5 else 10

-- f + g = \x -> if x then 7 else 13

  -- ryan

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Ozgur Akgun <ozgurakgun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you are feeling adventurous enough, you can define a num instance for
> functions:
>
> {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-}
>
> instance Num a => Num (a -> a) where
>     f + g = \ x -> f x + g x
>     f - g = \ x -> f x - g x
>     f * g = \ x -> f x * g x
>     abs f = abs . f
>     signum f = signum . f
>     fromInteger = const . fromInteger
>
> ghci> let f x = x * 2
> ghci> let g x = x * 3
> ghci> (f + g) 3
> 15
> ghci> (f+g+2) 2
> 17
>
> HTH,
> Ozgur
>
>
> On 19 March 2012 16:57, <sdiyazg at sjtu.edu.cn> wrote:
>
>> By arithmetic I mean the everyday arithmetic operations used in
>> engineering.
>> In signal processing for example, we write a lot of expressions like
>> f(t)=g(t)+h(t)+g'(t) or f(t)=g(t)*h(t).
>> I feel it would be very natural to have in haskell something like
>>   g::Float->Float
>>   --define g here
>>   h::Float->Float
>>   --define h here
>>   f::Float->Float
>>   f = g+h --instead of f t = g t+h t
>>   --Of course, f = g+h is defined as f t = g t+h t
>>
>
>
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