how implement takeWhile

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 15:13 +0200, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> On Monday, 6 August 2012 at 13:10:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 12:15 +0200, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> > […]
> >> writeln(recurrence!((a,n)=>a[n-1]+a[n-2])(1,1).until!(a=>a>=40000)().filter!(a=>a%2==0)().reduce!((a,b)=>a+b)())
> >
> > Do a JVM backend to D and D could wipe the floor with Scala :-)
> 
> Why is that? Can't Scala do the same?

Scala can definitely do the same, possibly more, but it's syntax gets
annoying and compilation time is horrendous. Of course it will have an
Eclipse plugin that works fairly soon, which will probably cement it's
standing as successor to Java.

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