On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 18:18, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>
>> or
>>
>> my $closure = $r1 > $r2 ?? { %matches{$p1}++ } !! { %matches{$p2}++ };
>> # invoke it
>> $closure();
>>
>
>
> That's very cool. Perl 6 is a functional language with lambdas and
> everything.
>
> Daniel.
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Perl 5 has lambdas as well:
my $lambda = sub { print "hello $_[0]\n"; };
$lambda->("world");
Perl 6 just has lots of short cuts that make them nicer. Like the ^ twigil:
my $lambda = { say "hello $^name" };
$lambda("world");
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