Emmanuel Castro writes:

I am looking for the name of the property linking two functions f and g when : [f(a),f(b),f(c)] = g([a,b,c])

Is there a standard name?

g = map f ?

In practice, g is an optimised version of f when working on large amount of elements.

It's a list, and map is lazy; not too sure you can get anything more optimised than that for long lists. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

* Emmanuel Castro [2010-06-15 00:10:09+0200]

I am looking for the name of the property linking two functions f and g when : [f(a),f(b),f(c)] = g([a,b,c])

Is there a standard name?

In practice, g is an optimised version of f when working on large amount of elements.

Sometimes (particularly in Data Parallel Haskell, but also in other languages) 'g' is called "vectorized version" of 'f'. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain

Emmanuel Castro wrote:

I am looking for the name of the property linking two functions f and g when : [f(a),f(b),f(c)] = g([a,b,c])

Is there a standard name?

Generally these sorts of things are called homomorphisms. It's a terribly general term, but that's the one I've always seen to describe that pattern. It's also a bit like distributivity, though that probably doesn't highlight what you're interested in focusing on. -- Live well, ~wren