Functional language in D

[Daniel Keep]

vanh wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> vanh wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm just wondering how much of functional language is in D?
>>> And how useful it would bring if it is added into D?
>>>
>>> vtp
>>
>> It has proper tail recursion.  That makes a lot of functional
>> techniques feasible, at least in principle.
>>
>> But there's not much in the way of generic functional algorithms in
>> the core.  Map, reduce, apply, etc, aren't in the std library.
>>
>> foreach is in the core, though.  That's kind of a functional thing.
>> What are you looking for exactly?  Something like Boost::lambda or
>> more like ML?  The former is becoming more and more doable, the latter
>> probably won't happen.
>>
>>
>> --bb
> 
> Boost::lambda  like is what I'm looking for.
> 
> vtp

We're pretty close... got the 'bind' bit down:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_bind.html

And here I was thinking I'd get to pimp my functools module :P

	-- Daniel

-- 
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