From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-02-09T17:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Using _ like in Scala?

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Kevin <darkintent@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wouldn't the general use case at issue here be addressed by adding
> standalone versions of various functions traditionally associated with
> collections so that one could call say reduce like "reduce myarray,
> :+"?

I do not think it is a good idea as a general rule because that
totally breaks OO.  And cluttering the global namespace with a ton of
methods which just delegate to instance methods with the same name
does not seem a good idea to me either.

As a general remark: we need to balance readability (which generally
benefits from making things explicit, but not too many things) and
writing efficiency (less text => more implicit).

Kind regards

robert

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