On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 21:53:06 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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.
Again, I know enough FP to know what predicates are, and of course, this is common in functional languages. Even Scheme has a 'there-exists?' function just for this purpose. I wasn't saying having "such a function" is weird -- I was just asking if you know of any languages in which the NAME is "any()", since I would've imagined it to be something more intuitive like "exists()" or "contains" or "has" or whatever. (I was giving C# as an example, because C# uses "Any()" to mean, "are there any elements in this list?", NOT with the meaning D uses.)
