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Re: Anonymous Math Functions in IDL like Matlab [message #75324 is a reply to message #75264]

Fri, 25 February 2011 08:16

Michael Galloy
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On 2/24/11 8:32 pm, nata wrote:
> I am just curious. What does the expression "sqrt = @(x) x.^2" means ?

It's a lambda function, or anonymous function, a way of specifying a
function without naming it, i.e., to use inline only once.

For example, see how Python does this:

http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/lambda_func tions.html

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