Function literals and lambda functions

[spir]

On 03/06/2011 03:03 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> PS  If you ask why not:
>
>          reduce ! ( "a+b" ) ( 0.0 , outputData )
>
> I find this somehow unacceptable.  It's the string, its not a function.
> Fine, my problem, but that still leaves the above.

You are not the only one ;-). The ugliest trick I have ever seen in a language. 
Even worse than BASIC's 'eval'. But we're far from having AST methods in D, I 
guess.

Denis
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