Re: RFC 23 (v3) Higher order functions

[Larry Wall]

Nathan Torkington writes:
: The fact that other languages can implement it trivially doesn't mean
: that Perl can.  I'd like us to have realized what kind of internals
: support is needed for a language feature (e.g., optree duping for
: partially-evaluated subroutines) *before* speccing out the internals.

It really depends on what you mean by "implement".  This stuff is
syntactic sugar.  To the first approximation, syntactic sugar is
trivial to implement.

To the second approximation, the first approximation is totally bogus.

Larry