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list manipulation - Mapping over a piecewise function



This is a followup to a question I posted earlier today. Suppose you have a piecewise function such as "snap=max[x,0]= x if x>0, 0 otherwise".


Then you would think that it must be straightworward to apply a function to this, i.e. to obtain "f[x] if x > 0, f[0] otherwise".


My intuition is that I should be able to say "f[snap]", but this doesn't work. The best I can do (after help from AccidentalFourierTransform) is quite complicated:


snap = PiecewiseExpand[Max[0, x]]
MapAt[f[#] &, Map[MapAt[f[#] &, 1], snap, {2}], -1]

This produces the desired result, but it seems strange that I need to do this. Is there a more straight-forward solution?



Answer



pwMap1[f_] := MapAt[f, #, {{1, All, 1}, {2}}] &;
pwMap1[f]@snap // TeXForm



$\begin{cases} f(x) & x>0 \\ f(0) & \text{True} \end{cases}$



Also:


pwMap2[f_] := Internal`ToPiecewise[#, f /@ #2] & @@ Internal`FromPiecewise[#] &;

pwMap2[f]@snap == pwMap1[f]@snap



True



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