Dan~ This is the coolest things I have heard all day. I am not sure that my brain is entirely around what situations it would be useful in yet. But it is really cool.
It seems to me that it would probably be most useful in the tail call setting where you are just passing the result from one function into another... Matt On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:22:58 -0400, Felix Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:08:34PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > 1) We're going to have MMD for functions soon > > 2) Function invocation and return continuation invocation's > > essentially identical > > 3) Therefore returning from a sub/method can do MMD return based on > > the return values > > > > Someone probably ought to think about what sort of syntax you might > > add to a language to take advantage of this... > > the two-dimensional '+' results-distribution operator, naturally. > > #!/usr/bin/perl9 > > $x -----\ > \ > @mylist -+--- $obj.mymmdsub; > / > %hash --/ > > F. > -- "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory." -???
