Hello, > > > The main issue has to do with programming style. The for-loop is a > > > construction from imperative-style programming. Operations like > > > 'product' above operate directly on functions and return functions. > > > This is most common in a functional-programming style and might be > > > used for example in conjuction with another operation such as 'map' to > > > produce the same results a a for-loop constrcut:
> map(product(Float,wholePart,sin),[1.1,2.2,3.3]) > versus > [makeprod(wholePart x, sin x)$Product(Integer,Float) for x in [1.1,2.2,3.3]] And what do you think about a map as : map (t +-> [|wholePart t, sin t|], [1.1,2.2,3.3]) where [|....|] creates a makeprod with right types. It's a good thing that record will remain mutable and the other structure product won't be mutable. So there is no ambiguity. Have a nice day ! F. the naive guy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
