Functional language in D

[vanh]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I guess you saw this from a few minutes ago?
>    http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/functools
> 
> (reposting Daniel's link because he posted it to a different thread, 
> though with the same subject line.)
> 
> --bb
Cool thank guys.

vtp