new python syntax: concatenation of functions
Donn Cave
donn at drizzle.com
Thu Mar 11 22:51:12 EST 2004
Quoth Oren Tirosh <oren-py-l at hishome.net>:
...
|> Now, why do you think such an extension would be completely useless? ;)
|
| Composition of regular functions is not too useful in daily programming
| tasks but concatenation of stream processes is quite useful. That is
| what makes pipes in shell programming so effective.
Well, as you may know, function composition is heavily used in Haskell.
But I would agree that it doesn't sound very useful for Python.
Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com
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