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Additional compositions are possible, even without using an argument more than once or applying a function to its own result. However, most of these are rather trivial shuffled-around versions of the above three. For example, one could define an operator identical to Atop, only that it applies the right operand to the result of the left operand, that is <source lang=apl inline>{⍵⍵ ⍺ ⍺⍺ ⍵}</source>. | Additional compositions are possible, even without using an argument more than once or applying a function to its own result. However, most of these are rather trivial shuffled-around versions of the above three. For example, one could define an operator identical to Atop, only that it applies the right operand to the result of the left operand, that is <source lang=apl inline>{⍵⍵ ⍺ ⍺⍺ ⍵}</source>. | ||
Of note is [[Reverse-compose]] <source lang=apl inline>⍛</source> (also called ''Before''), | When Dyalog added Atop and Over, it was with the reasoning that these were the only compositions where the leftmost function acted as the "root" function in the evaluation tree, while the arguments were used each on their respective sides of the constituent functions: | ||
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Of note here is <source lang=apl inline>f⍨∘g⍨</source> which is [[Reverse-compose]] <source lang=apl inline>⍛</source> (also called ''Before''), and the mirrored version of Beside <source lang=apl inline>∘</source> (also known as ''Compose'' and ''After''), because it is the only such variation that has been implemented, namely in [[dzaima/APL]] and [[Extended Dyalog APL]]. | |||
A compositional operator that isn't just a shuffled around version of the basic three, is one that applies one operand between the other operand's dyadic result and the result of that other operand's result when [[swap]]ped: <source lang=apl inline>{(⍵ ⍵⍵ ⍺) ⍺⍺ (⍺ ⍵⍵ ⍵)}</source>. This operator can for example be used to implement [[wikipedia:three-way comparison|three-way comparison]]: | A compositional operator that isn't just a shuffled around version of the basic three, is one that applies one operand between the other operand's dyadic result and the result of that other operand's result when [[swap]]ped: <source lang=apl inline>{(⍵ ⍵⍵ ⍺) ⍺⍺ (⍺ ⍵⍵ ⍵)}</source>. This operator can for example be used to implement [[wikipedia:three-way comparison|three-way comparison]]: | ||