Re: special forms, take two (was Re: A lua version of "amb")
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- Subject: Re: special forms, take two (was Re: A lua version of "amb")
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: 2012年2月26日 14:46:12 +0200
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
> But Unix programmers are allergic to backslash being used that way.
> Even though my brain says "yes, lots of languages write lambda as
> backslash" my eyes say "control character".
So \\x(x+1) would read better? ;)
> of describing what I had in mind: string indexing is a partial
> function from strings to characters.
There's also the Go approach, where iterating over a UTF-8 string
returns 'runes' rather than the underlying bytes.
> My favorite lombok-so-bad-it's-good trick is how their implicitly
> typed Java "var s = new HashSet()" is syntactically legal.
I abuse the helpfulness of Eclipse by writing the same and using the
correct feature to quickly fill in the actual type.
> optional static typing all of a sudden makes dynamic languages much
> heavier
The approach in Koneki is to encourage people to provide types in the
@param tags.
steve d.