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

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

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

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.
> 
> vtp

We're pretty close... got the 'bind' bit down: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/phobos/std_bind.html

And here I was thinking I'd get to pimp my functools module :P

	-- Daniel

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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

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