<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>\\ -- a binary operator</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="__bs.html">next</a> | <a href="__at_at.html">previous</a> | <a href="__bs.html">forward</a> | <a href="__at_at.html">backward</a> | <a href="_operators.html">up</a> | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_operators.html" title="">operators</a> > <a href="__bs_bs.html" title="a binary operator">\\</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>\\ -- a binary operator</h1> <div><!--empty documentation body--></div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>\\</tt> :</h2> <ul><li><span>Command \\ Thing, see <span><a href="___Thing_sp_sl_sl_sp__Function.html" title="apply a function">Thing // Function</a> -- apply a function</span></span></li> <li><span>Function \\ Thing, see <span><a href="___Thing_sp_sl_sl_sp__Function.html" title="apply a function">Thing // Function</a> -- apply a function</span></span></li> <li><span>SelfInitializingType \\ Thing, see <span><a href="___Thing_sp_sl_sl_sp__Function.html" title="apply a function">Thing // Function</a> -- apply a function</span></span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2> <p>The object <a href="__bs_bs.html" title="a binary operator">\\</a> is <span>a <a href="___Keyword.html">keyword</a></span>.</p> <div><div><p>This operator may be used as a binary operator in an expression like <tt>x\\y</tt>. The user may install <a href="_binary_spmethods.html" title="">binary methods</a> for handling such expressions with code such as</p> <pre> X \\ Y := (x,y) -> ...</pre> <p>where <tt>X</tt> is the class of <tt>x</tt> and <tt>Y</tt> is the class of <tt>y</tt>.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>