* 2010-02-18 20:21 (UTC), Antony Scriven wrote: > On 18 February 2010 12:14, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote: >> Higher-order functions are standard stuff in Lisp but probably weird >> for many people because the the concept is not common and the feature >> of first-class functions is not available in many languages. >> Nevertheless they are powerful. [...] > > Most comp sci degrees teach functional programming in the first year > now. And don't forget that the world's most popular programming > language includes reduce and other HOFs as standard. --Antony
Good. Then perhaps (reduce <function> <sequence>) is also in the category of easy-to-read. I thought I had found an area in Lisp code which is difficult to understand quickly but it seems I was at least partially wrong. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
