Question: Is this a bug with composition ?

Consider the following situation: I have a function f, say

f:=x -> 1+x^2/n;

I want to compute the composition of f with itself; e.g.

g:=f@@n;
eval(g(x),n=3);

So it appears eval does evaluate the threefold composition but not at n=3. Obviously I can wrap this example in a subs() or another eval to get the replacement done; but it is a bit curious and I wonder whether this behaviour is as designed or an "undocumented feature."

I ran across this when investigating whether or how to do the composition for an arbitrary n (so I can e.g. find the limit for n=infinity) and really wanted to ask about that, but I see that such a question was dealt with before by Joe Riel using rsolve so I'll see first how far that approach gets me. In my case the function will be a polynomial vector function with vectorial arguments, providing for some additional challenge.

Mac Dude.

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