Symbols as parameters?

Alf P. Steinbach alfps at start.no
Thu Jan 21 05:38:19 EST 2010


* Carl Banks:
> On Jan 20, 11:43 pm, Martin Drautzburg <Martin.Drautzb... at web.de>
[snip]
> 
>> What I am really looking for is a way
>>
>>         - to be able to call move(up)
>>         - having the "up" symbol only in the context of the function call
> 
> Short answer is, you can't do it.
> 

On the contrary, it's not difficult to do.

I provided an example in my answer to the OP (first reply in the thread).

However, it's IMHO an abuse of the language, not something that one should do.


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf



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