Hi, I’m not sure if I’m using the right terminology here but essentially what I want to do is to make a function (or macro) which takes another function as it’s argument and looks inside that argument function to see what it does. So here’s an example case. I’ve defined a method *(f1::Function, f2:…

[image] dpsanders: That sounds nice - which symbolic package did you use? Would you be interested in sharing the code? I’m actually not using a symbolic package, I wanted total control over evaluation and simplification so I rolled my own. Its still in the early stages but I’ll share some sni…

Introspecting into a function?

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stevengj January 6, 2018, 4:56pm 5

Can you back up and summarize what underlying problem you are trying to solve? Why do you need to write functions that analyze other functions without executing them?

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Introspecting into a function?

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