Jo'n Fairbairn wrote in response to Neil Mitchell:
And as you go on to say, if you apply it to the infinite
list, who cares if you used head. Head is only unsafe on
an empty list. So the problem then becomes can you detect
unsafe calls to head and let the programmer know.
No, that's the
Hello oleg,
Thursday, September 7, 2006, 10:28:00 AM, you wrote:
P.S. Algol68 was my favorite language too.
+1 :)
it was the first imperative language supporting closures, after all
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On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 11:03 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
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it was the first imperative language supporting closures, after all
Uh, what about lisp? The (MIT) lisp 1.4 manual (ca. 1965) refers to
FUNCTION differing from QUOTE in that it handled free variables
correctly; I take this to
it was the first imperative language supporting closures, after all
Uh, what about lisp?
For those who read the Foozles slides posted earlier [0], I must say
he nailed this one, on slide 2.
The (MIT) lisp 1.4 manual (ca. 1965) refers to
FUNCTION differing from QUOTE in that it handled free
Hello Bill,
Thursday, September 7, 2006, 8:24:53 PM, you wrote:
it was the first imperative language supporting closures, after all
Uh, what about lisp?
Lots of Idiotic Silly Parentheses? :)
well, i say about more or less well-known non-FP languages. actually,
i'm sure that some FBCPL
