On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Todd O'Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Matthias Felleisen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Aug 14, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Jon Rafkind wrote: >>> Partly inspired by scala; sure to make your blood boil if you love hygiene. >> >> This just lowered my opinion of Scala a lot. I hacked enough TeX (including >> quasi-higher order) in the 80s to know that parameters shouldn't be >> numbered, neither explicitly nor implicitly :-) > > Scala only uses this _1, _2 style to get members out of tuples, I > think. I can't find it being used to identify parameters.
I think what Jon was referring to is a feature of Scala more like Jay's 'scut' macro - you can implicitly create a function by inserting an _. For example: _ + 1 in scala is the same as (lambda (x) (+ x 1)) -- sam th [email protected] _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
