I'm considering functions of one argument of type T that return an argument of type T. I seem to vaguely recall that there is a name for that sort of function, maybe homo-something. Is there such a term?
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After an hour-long wiki-crawl, it appears that an appropriate term would be "endofunction".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomorphism#Endofunctions_in_mathematics
Thom Smith
2010-10-07 21:46:25
+1 for persistence...I gave up after about twenty minutes!
Jim Lewis
2010-10-07 22:43:06
Darn, can't add more than +1.
Andy Thomas-Cramer
2010-10-08 22:36:32