The reasoning behind this is that we will be able to keep the number of methods we implement as small as possibly, instead relying on a more functional (and easier to extend) approach. Since in a symbolic computation we often want to chain a long series of manipulations, having the apply method allows the syntax
Expression
should have a methodapply
, whereis equivalent to
The reasoning behind this is that we will be able to keep the number of methods we implement as small as possibly, instead relying on a more functional (and easier to extend) approach. Since in a symbolic computation we often want to chain a long series of manipulations, having the
apply
method allows the syntaxwhich is much more readable than
The name
apply
is still open for discussion.