February 02, 2014
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6110


Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Peter Alexander <peter.alexander.au@gmail.com> 2014-02-02 10:24:21 PST ---
I think this was before lambdas. Do you still think this is necessary now that you can write:

filter!(a => bbb[a])

???

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February 02, 2014
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6110


bearophile_hugs@eml.cc changed:

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--- Comment #2 from bearophile_hugs@eml.cc 2014-02-02 10:49:08 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think this was before lambdas. Do you still think this is necessary now that you can write:
> 
> filter!(a => bbb[a])
> 
> ???

I think the enhancement request by Timon is still a nice thing to ask. Using arrays and associative arrays as functions for the higher order functions is handy, and it's done often in the Clojure language.

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