Perl 6 like Haskell has a built in function composition operator, the main difference is it is spelled as " or o.
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Taking the set \ { T _ L, T _ R \ } together with function composition forms a monoid, the dyadic monoid.
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Which, using the function composition operator ( expressed as a dot in Haskell ) to compose the product function with the point-free style:
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One may then consider the result of function composition repeatedly applied to the various functions \ delta _ a, \ delta _ b, and so on.
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Narrowly speaking, function composition applies to functions that operate on a finite amount of data, each step sequentially processing it before handing it to the next.
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Substitution is related to, but not identical to function composition; it is also closely related to " ? "-reduction in lambda calculus.
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If you really are stuck, I suggest you search Wikibooks to find a good book on function compositions but to tell you the truth, this is basic algebra.
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It is not only an abelian group but is also a ring with multiplication given by function composition; it is called the endomorphism ring of " M ".
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Note also that can be seen as a single vector / tuple-valued function in this generalized scheme, in which case this is precisely the standard definition of function composition.
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Alternatively, this can be seen from the relation between \ mathcal { F } ^ {-1 } f and the flip operator and the associativity of function composition, since