#
is the first argument of a pure function, #n
the nth, ##
are all variables and ##n
all beginning with the nth variable.
Now, I would like to access the last argument. In a list, this would be mylist[[-1]]
. Additionally, I would like to access all but the last argument which would be Drop[mylist,-1]
for a list. Can this be achieved and if yes, how?
The reason for this is that I would like to pass all but the last argument to another function which can take different numbers of input arguments. Of course, I could change the order of the arguments, taking the last argument first, but this makes the arguments appear in a less logical order.
Example:
f1[a_:0,b_]:=a+b; f2[a_:0,b_,c_]:=f1[a,b]*c
If I wanted to write f2
as a pure function, how would I do this?