Re: Amazing Perl 6

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 27, 2009, at 15:42 , Daniel Carrera wrote:

Mark J. Reed wrote:

Note that of the examples given, only Perl 6 and Common Lisp do two things

that help immensely simplify the result:

a lambda expression;
2. actually name the function "!"

1. reference the built-in * operator directly, without having to wrap it in

Yes, very neat. Haskell does that too, but I don't know if you can make the function a postfix in Haskell.

Not in H98, but ghc allows it as a degenerate form of section.

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