From: Piers Cawley Date: 2001-10-24T21:55:21+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:23186] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby Robert Feldt writes: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Piers Cawley wrote: > >> Function/operator equivalency, with names for all ops. Easy currying. >> Lazy iteration. Pairs. Coroutines and Continuations. Lots of cool >> > Lazy iteration? Do you mean "Lazy evaluation" or is this different? Do you know, I think I'm confused. Take a look at Larry's apocalypses and Damian's exegeses. > >> functional stuff on its way in Perl 6. But this probably isn't the >> right place for this discussion. >> > Interesting. Do you have pointers to discussion of these things in > Perl 6? dev.perl.org is a decent starting point. Note that there's some seriously barking suggestions in some of the mailing lists and RFCs... -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite." -- Jane Austen?