On 10/18/05, Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3) Macros. Nuff said.
Not quite. Lispish macros, that is, macros that let you look at what
you're expanding.
> 4) More declarative syntax. This is more of a handwavy, but the syntax
> feels (to me) as if it's more declarative than before. For example,
>
> for @x -> $x { ... }
> for @x -> $x, $y { ... }
>
> That reads like a math proof. "For all X, do such-and-such".
Uh huh. Sure it does.
(Were you referring to the fact that @x and $x are different things,
but really refer to the same thing (a collection and a particular
object in the collection)).
Luke
