@BGB, if the braces around the letters defers execution, as my memories
of Perl confirm, this is perfect. With APL, quoting an expression
accomplishes the same end: '1+1'
On another note, I agree with the thesis that OO is just message passing:
aResult ← someParameters 'messageName' to anObject ⍝⍝ so, once
'to' is defined, APL does OO.
I was thinking 'new' didn't fit, but
'new' to aClass
convinced me otherwise.
It also means that 'object oriented language' is a category error.
On 6/16/2012 11:40 AM, BGB wrote:
I recently thought about it off-list, and came up with a syntax like:
async! {A}&{B}&{C}
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