> I'd agree to the contrapositive: if we have named placeholders, I don't see the > need for positional ones too. But I'm willing to be convinced. The below, with > positional only, is total gibberish, as Ken points out. To most, probably, but I say let the user decide. Like Jeremy points out: There's a nice parallel with '$' as used for: - $identifier: named variable - $_: anonymous/default variable - $digit ...: positional variable from last exp With ^ used in the same way, we're giving them the same power with higher-order functions. TMTOWTDI! :-) -Nate
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Ken Fox
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Mike Pastore
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Nathan Wiger
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Damian Conway
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Damian Conway
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Glenn Linderman
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Nathan Wiger
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Bart Lateur
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Nathan Wiger
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Nathan Wiger
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Bart Lateur
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... John Porter
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Jeremy Howard
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Peter Scott
- Re: Different higher-order func notation? (was Re: RFC 23 ... Chaim Frenkel