A nice way to step into 2012

[dsimcha]

On Tuesday, 27 December 2011 at 15:19:07 UTC, dsimcha wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 December 2011 at 15:11:25 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Imagine how bitter I am that the string lambda syntax didn't 
>> catch on!
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Please tell me they're not going anywhere.  I **really** don't 
> want to deal with those being deprecated.

...and they were kind of useful in that you could introspect the 
string and apply optimizations depending on what the lambda was.  
I wrote a sorting function that introspected the lambda that was 
passed to it.  If it was "a < b", "a<b", "a > b", etc., and the 
array to be sorted was floating point, it punned and bit twiddled 
the floats/doubles to ints/longs, sorted them and bit twiddled 
and punned them back.