Re: Higher-order function application

["D. Tweed" <tweed@cs.bris.ac.uk>]

>     Tim> 6. Applying a function f:t->u to a list x::[t] translates to
>     Tim> "map f x".

This can be done in mathematica via function attribute (Listable if my
memory is correct). IIRC It's defined by default only for functions that
only make sense on pure numbers/symbols (eg Sin) and it's very convenient
when working interactively on expressions a few levels deep. It's also one
of the things that makes building bigger programs in Mathematica a very
error prone business. I agree with the others who've said it's probably
not appropriate or implementable for a compiled, typed language like
Haskell.

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