Functional language in D

[vanh]

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