On Friday, May 11, 2012 22:40:08 Mehrdad wrote: > On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 20:20:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > That's definitely an example of something that depends on your > > background. std.algorithm.any does _exactly_ what it would do > > in a functional language. > > Well, I know some FP (Scheme/newLISP) but they don't have an > "any" function. I don't know about F#, but my guess would be that > it would do the same thing as C# would (for obvious reasons). > > Are you thinking of a language in particular that has D's > behavior? Or is this just a guess?
I know that haskell has such a function, and there were a number of complaints previously that we _didn't_ have an any function which does exactly what std.algorithm.any now does. It's a very functional approach to use predicates like that and I get the impression that it's common in other functional languages based on other's comments. The only one off the top of my head that I _know_ has such a function though is haskell. - Jonathan M Davis
