what is lambda used for in real code?

Adam DePrince adam at cognitcorp.com
Tue Jan 4 22:38:14 EST 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 11:42, Steve Holden wrote:
> Adam DePrince wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > In sort, we must preserve the ability to create an anonymous function
> > simply because we can do so for every other object type, and functions
> > are not special enough to permit this special case.
> > 
> And you'd create an anonymous type how, exactly?
> 

Okay, you got me.   Let me rephrase:

... functions, types, classes and moduless are not special enough ... 

I had things like, um, strings, lists, integers, etc in mind.

- adam

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