Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > Are the two values of a pair restricted in anyway? All your examples
> > > were scalar.
> >
> > Yes. The two components must be scalars.
> > The key is stringified iff it's a bareword.
> > Otherwise no restrictions.
>
> So assuming pairs are scalars...
[...]
> How about:
>
> (a => b => (c => d => e) => f => g)
>
> Maybe we could have a pragma:
>
> use lisplike;
>
> Which would make
>
> (a b (c d e) f g) == (a => b => (c => d => e) => f => g)
>
>
> Hmm... you know, once more I'm not sure if this is ugly or beautiful,
> but it's certainly fascinating. I think I like it.
Ooh, and we could use 'em for streams as well...
$ints_from = ^1 => sub {$ints_from->(^1+1)};
$ints = $ints_from->(1);
Now, if that hasn't sent the lisp haters running, screaming to the
hills, I wonder what will...
--
Piers
