From: Mike Gold Date: 2009-01-12T20:50:27+09:00 Subject: Re: functional programming Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Mike Gold writes: >> Do you propose to change every method in the ruby standard library >> to take just one argument--an array? That would work. Sounds like >> Lisp. > > Lisp is not like that. I had hoped it was a given that nothing can be done to actually make Ruby like Lisp. In the same spirit of how you fiddled around with Ruby until mapcar sort of worked, another route is to remove the notion of the function argument list, replacing it with an array, so that the examples I gave worked. In both cases we are artificially removing syntactical differences, and in this sense it is closer to Lisp. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.