Re: RFC 76 (v1) Builtin: reduce

[Glenn Linderman]

Damian Conway wrote:

> Currying placeholders are scalars

Is that a general truth?  It wasn't obvious from RFC 23... If you rev it, perhaps
you could make that clearer.

Looking back, the defining example did give a list of (;$$$$) in the prototype.  I
suppose it would be pretty complex to infer the type from the expression, unless
the placeholder syntax were extended to ^$_, ^@_, ^%_, and similar for named and
positional placeholders...  Seems like if we get matrix ops (via other RFCs) that
we might want to curry them?

Here I was thinking a placeholder was a whatzitz whatzitz; of unknown cardinality.
Is it, or not?

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Glenn
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