Not long ago, Patrick R. Michaud proclaimed... > I'm not sure about this last comment -- I think I can imagine > that other language implementations (including new ones we haven't > thought of yet but suddenly becomes possible with Parrot) might > want to make use of gather/take semantics if they're readily available -- > especially because they can be very hard to otherwise > implement when they're not readily available. And compile-time > constants are pretty cheap. :-)
I plan to add support for gather/take to cardinal. While we're discussing it, though, it might be fun to add it to lolcode, for purposes of flashy inter-hll demos.