Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-07 Thread Aaron Denney 
[Followup-To: header set to comp.lang.functional.]
On 2006-05-07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 - it fits most programmers brains i.e. it is similar enough to
   languages that most programmers have experience with and the
   differences are usually perceived to beneficial (exception:
   people from a Java/C/C++ background often perceive dynamic
   typing as a misfeature and have to struggle with it)

It is a misfeature.  It's just less of a misfeature than the typing of
Java/C/C++, etc.

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Re: Programming challenge: wildcard exclusion in cartesian products

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Denney 
On 2006-03-23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The solution that would have the most utility would be one where the
 elements are generated one-by-one, loop-like, so that they can be used
 in the body of a loop, and to avoid the fact that even with exclusion
 the cardinality of the target set EX^n could be in the millions even
 with a full list of wc's, that is, a list containing at least one wc of
 every length in 2..(n-1). I don't know enough Lisp, Haskell or
 Qi/Prolog to know if the solutions so far can be modified to do this.
 The Python program is too slow for large sets.

In Haskell you can get this essentially for free, due to its laziness.

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