Pure higher order functions

[bearophile]

Daniel Murphy:

> function shouldn't be required once 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3235 is fixed.

OK.


> > 3827 automatic joining of adjacent strings is bad [partial patch present]
> The patch for this seems solid, I might make a pull for it after the 
> release.

Is a good enough error message generated by the patch?
Do you want the automatic joining (without ~) to work if the -d switch is used? (I think this is not needed).


> This seems like it would require modifying the parser, which I'm not 
> particularly good at yet.  Maybe later. 

OK.

Thank you for your work and your answers :-)
Bye,
bearophile