Can you chain the result of one delegate to be the input of another in C#?

Question

I am looking for a way to chain several delegates so the result from one becomes the input of the next. I am trying to use this in equation solving program where portions ar

Answer 1

I have been working on a similar problem myself which involved invoking a sequence of delegates and passing the output of one delegate to the next (and so on...) so thought you might be interested to see the code I developed as a proof-of-concept:

static class Program
{
    private static IList> delegateList = 
        new List>()
    {
        AddOne, AddOne, AddOne, AddOne, AddOne,
        AddOne, AddOne, AddOne, AddOne, AddOne,
    };

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int number = 12;

        Console.WriteLine("Starting number: {0}", number);
        Console.WriteLine("Ending number: {0}", 
                          delegateList.InvokeChainDelegates(number));
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    public static int AddOne(int num) { return num + 1; }

    public static T InvokeChainDelegates(this IEnumerable> source, 
                                            T startValue)
    {
        T result = startValue;

        foreach (Func function in source)
        {
            result = function(result);
        }

        return result;
    }
}

The sequence has to contain delegates of the same type so is not as powerful as the already accepted answer but with a few tweaks, both bits of code could be combined to provide a powerful solution.