3. Quick startΒΆ

We will start with a simple reFORM program that adds one to an argument of a function:

expr F = f(5);

apply {
    id f(x?) = f(x? + 1);
    print;
}

This code creates an expression F, and applies a list of instructions (a module) to every term in the expression. This example will yield:

f(6)

Save the code in a file called add.rfm and use

reform add.rfm

to run it and check the result for yourself.

A big difference between reFORM and languages such as Mathematica and Maple is that every operation inside a module will be applied to each term independently.

If you want to run with multiple cores, you can specify them with the -w flag.