From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T20:41:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ternary operator confusion

On 6/1/05, Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> For comparision here ways that some languages make
> function/method/procedure/command calls:
> 
> function/method/procedure/command: f
> arguments: a, b
> 
> `f a b`  shells (bash also supports "$(f a b)")
> [f a b]  tcl
> (f a b)  lisp
> f(a,b)   most other languages including perl and ruby
> f a,b    alternate for perl and ruby
> 

Just to add to this list:
f a b languages with ML derived syntaxes (eg SML, Haskell, etc.)
a b f Forth, Postscript
[obj message: arg1 withSomeArg: arg2]; Objective-C (Smalltalk as well
if you drop the [] I think)

I can't think of any other syntaxes for this.