On Sunday, 2 June 2019 at 15:55:46 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Sunday, 2 June 2019 at 15:48:54 UTC, Rnd wrote:
I have recently started using Dlang, hence this basic
question. Thanks for your insight.
map and filter are templates in D, and !(...) is D's syntax for
passing arguments to templates:
map!(x => x*x)([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
^ ^
| |
| +- This array is a normal function argument
|
+- This lambda is a template argument
Is it not possible in the language to have template map function
also to called as map(x=>... ?
This will reduce complexity which will attract more people to
this language.
Easy languages have great mass appeal as has been shown with Ruby
and Python.
