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<div><h1>functionBody -- get the body of a function</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>functionBody f</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>f</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Function.html">function</a></span></span></li>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Function__Body.html">function body</a></span>, the body of the function <tt>f</tt></span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><p>The body of <tt>f</tt> is essentially just the source code of <tt>f</tt>, with no frames providing bindings for the local variables in scopes enclosing the scope of <tt>f</tt>. Function bodies cannot act as functions, but they can be tested for equality (<a href="___Thing_sp_eq_eq_eq_sp__Thing.html" title="strict equality">===</a>), and they can be used as keys in hash tables.</p>
<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : f = a -> b -> a+b+a*b
o1 = f
o1 : FunctionClosure</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : functionBody f 1
o2 = <<a function body>>
o2 : FunctionBody</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : f 1 === f 2
o3 = false</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : functionBody f 1 === functionBody f 2
o4 = true</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="___Function__Body.html" title="the class of function bodies">FunctionBody</a> -- the class of function bodies</span></li>
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