On 22 March 2012 01:13, Solomon Foster <colo...@gmail.com> wrote: > It actually smartmatches whatever is on the right hand side against > the sequence, and stops when the smartmatch returns True. It just > "happens" that you smartmatch an anonymous function, it executes the > function and returns its result.
I see... I still find this a little confusing. The idea of smart-matching a function just doesn't quite fit with my brain. I can memorize the fact that smart-matching 7 and &foo means evaluating foo(7) and seeing if the value is true, but I can't say I "understand" it. > Examples: > > 2, 5 ... 11 # smartmatch is true when you hit 11 > 2, 5 ... True # stop right away > 2, 5 ... False # never stop > 2, 5 ... * # shorter way of saying never stop > 2, 1, 1/2 ... Num # stop when the number switches from a Rat to a Num > 'a' ... /f/ # stop when the regular expression matches Interesting. Cheer, Daniel. -- I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.
