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Important: The student package has been deprecated . Use the superseding package Student instead.

The result of calling makeproc(expr, x) is a procedure which when evaluated at x returns expr.

It is useful when evaluating an expression at several values of x.

If expr is an unevaluated function call such as $\sin \left(x\right)$, then the name of the function is returned.

The result of calling makeproc([x1,y1], [x2,y2]) is a procedure with the result being the line created from two given points [x1,y1] and [x2,y2].

The result of calling makeproc([x,y], 'slope'=m) or makeproc('slope'=m, [x,y]) is a procedure with the result being the line created from the point [x, y] and the slope m.

The command with(student,makeproc) allows the use of the abbreviated form of this command.

$\mathrm{with}\left(\mathrm{student}\right)\:$

makeproc(sin(x), x);

$x\mapsto \sin \left(x\right)$

$p≔x^2+2x+3$

$p≔x^2+2x+3$

f := makeproc(p, x);

$f≔x\mapsto x^2+2\cdot x+3$

$f\left(x\right)$

$x^2+2x+3$

$f\left(u\right)$

$u^2+2u+3$

makeproc([2,3],[4,5]);

$x\mapsto x+1$

makeproc([a,b],'slope'=m);

$x\mapsto -m\cdot a+m\cdot x+b$