Re: [Nlisp-developer] multiple argument conundrum

[Mirko V. <mir...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Mirko Vukovic <mir...@gm...>wrote:

> Consider the following defun with five arguments that returns a scalar.
> (defun f1-2-parallel-coaxial-rings (r1-inner r1-outer sep
>                           r2-inner r2-outer)
>
> How to vectorize that?  Do we need a reader macro here?  (I only have a
> foggy idea what they do)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mirko
>

Well, it was not that hard.  I defined a helper function of two arguments
that fixes the other arguments and then calls the five-argument function.
Then I subjected that function to make-f-2-arg.

But, one has to be a real lisp lover in order to prefer this to the built-in
features of idl & matlab :-)

Mirko